When a teen got stuck on one side of the Dungeness River over the weekend, Clallam County Fire District No. 3 firefighters decided to make a training day out of the incident.
Firefighters responded at about 5 p.m. Saturday after a 14-year-old boy crossed the Dungeness River but couldn’t get back across on his own, said Assistant Chief Dan Orr.
Orr said the boy and some friends had been cooling off in the river about half a mile upstream from the Dungeness Hatchery, 1261 Fish Hatchery Road, near Sequim.
“The young man wasn’t in any distress, it was just getting across safely,” he said. “It would have been a much different deal if he was hurt.”
Because he wasn’t hurt, firefighters turned it into a drill.