Colorado police rescue three teenagers who fell 30ft into abandoned missile trends now
Colorado police and first responders rescued several teens from an abandoned underground missile silo, after they plummeted 30 feet and miraculously survived.
The teens crawled into the underground silo in the middle of the night after they gained access through a broken gate. The underground missile located at 82000 East County Road 22, near the town of Deer Trail, had been abandoned since the 1960s.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office and five other agencies were alerted to the emergency around 3.30am Sunday, and were there within 10 minutes, fire officials said. By 8.30am the rescue mission was complete, Fox News reported.
Fire Chief Rich Solomon, and his team searched 'the maze of tunnels and caverns,' trying to locate the trapped teens for hours.
He described the inside, as 'twisted metal....collapsed floors.. concrete pieces everywhere.' He also said, it was a 'confined space,' and there was 'stagnant water.'
By 6am the teens - a juvenile and two 18-year-olds- were found by rescue teams. And a half hour later they made contact with one teen, who was critically injured from the catastrophic fall. He was later airlifted to hospital.
The teens crawled into the underground silo in the middle of the night after they gained access through a broken gate. The missile is located at 82000 East County Road 22, near the town of Deer Trail, had been abandoned since the 1960s
Fire Chief Rich Solomon, and his team searched underground missile (pictured) for hours. He described it as a 'maze of tunnels and
