SPARTA, Tenn. (WDEF) – A weekend cave expedition in Middle Tennessee turned dangerous for a Nashville man, prompting a successful multi-agency rescue mission.
The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Rescue Service joined forces with the Sparta-White County Rescue Squad and White County Emergency Management to assist a Vanderbilt University student who became trapped deep inside Blue Spring Cave in Sparta.
Officials say the student was on an overnight research trip with classmates when he got sick roughly three miles into the cave system on Friday…