After 9/11, Michael Harp, 54, was prominently sent to Ground Zero, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department.
The 27-year Salt Lake City Fire Department veteran who perished in a rafting accident at Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado is from Utah.
Around 4 p.m. on Thursday, the boat of Michael Harp, 54, and his companions were on a private, authorized rafting excursion down the Green River in the Canyon of Lodore when it became caught on a rock in the rapid known as Hells Half Mile, according to the U.S. National Park Service.
When Monument employees arrived at the scene of the rafting mishap, they discovered that Harp was gone and thought to be pinned beneath the raft. Officials stated that although the rafting group managed to remove the boat from the boulder, Harp remained unconscious and had “drifted downriver.”
The NPS claims that while Harp had been wearing a life jacket, he had lost it by the time the group unpinned the boat.
