“We could visually see him in the tree, and you could see that he was getting fatigued,” said a rescue official in Tempe, Ariz.
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- The man became stranded in a tree around midnight after rising water left him trapped in the Salt River near Tempe, Ariz.
- Rescuers used a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office helicopter to lift him to safety after a raft rescue proved too dangerous
- He was taken to a local hospital for evaluation after spending nearly 12 hours stranded above the fast-moving water
A man spent nearly 12 hours stranded in a tree above Arizona’s Salt River after rising water left him unable to escape.
The man, who has not been publicly identified, had been in the riverbed about a mile east of Tempe Town Lake when the water began rising around midnight on Monday, Nov. 2, according to the Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department…