OREGON CITY, Ore. (KATU) — Authorities say a 911 call from a person living at a homeless encampment along the Willamette river alerted authorities about a kayaker struggling against the current near Willamette Falls on Saturday night.
“As the call taker was on the phone with the reporting party, they were describing him paddling and struggling, and then describing him going over the falls,” said Sgt. Nate Thompson with Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
Thompson said that, as of Monday, the search for the 20-year-old missing kayaker from California has only yielded his empty blue kayak, seven and a half miles downstream at Elk Rock Island…