Boy freed after being trapped beneath boulder
Saturday, July 9, 2005
EAGLE, Colo. -- A 16-year-old boy whose foot was trapped under a huge boulder for more than 12 hours suffered swelling but no broken bones. William McCann, of Leander, Texas, was climbing Wednesday afternoon in the Holy Cross Wilderness area southwest of Vail when he was trapped by a rock about 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide, Eagle County sheriff's officials said. McCann said others in his group had grabbed boulders and pulled themselves up, but when it was his turn, the boulder under his hand came crashing down on his right foot. Rescuers told him the boulder weighed at least 1,000 pounds.
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