13-year-old Gracie Johnson is the only survivor of a deadly rock slide that killed five at Agnes Vallie Falls in Chaffee County, Colo.
A 13-year-old girl survived a deadly rockslide in Colorado when her dad used his body to shield her from tumbling boulders, authorities said.
Monday’s massive slide killed five hikers and trapped the teen, Gracie Johnson, among 100-ton boulders.
A Chaffee County, Colo., sheriff’s deputy discovered the girl.
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An emergency helicopter searches for survivors following a rock slide at Agnes Vaille Falls on Monday.
“I heard a scream next to me,” Deputy Nick Tolsma told Good Morning America. “I saw a hand sticking out underneath the boulder.”
Tolsma freed the girl and learned the incredible story of her survival.
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Dwayne Johnson, right, used his body to shield his 13-year-old daughter from a deadly rockslide in Chaffee County, Colo.
“She said that her dad jumped on top of her to protect her right at the last moment when the rocks were coming down, so I really think that he saved her life,” Tolsma said.
Gracie was hiking the picturesque trail near Agnes Vaille Falls with her family, including dad Dwayne Johnson and mom Dawna Johnson, a track coach at Buena Vista High School, the Denver Post reported.
Witnesses heard a brief rumbling before giant boulders crashed down, carving a path the size of a football field in the mountainside.
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A Flight for Life Helicopter rises above backed up traffic on Monday following a deadly rockslide in southern Colorado.
Rescuers dodged rolling rocks as they climbed up the crumbling slope.
The slide broke the girl’s leg and crushed the other five hikers in a shifting expanse of loose rubble, ABC News 7 reported.
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Chaffee County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Everson, right, and other deputies on Monday walk out the Agnes Vaille Falls trail shortly after leaving the scene of a rock slide that killed five people.
Sheriff Pete Palmer said deputies found the bodies but had to wait to recover the bodies because the slope was too unstable.
“They are in bad shape,” Palmer said at a news conference. “They were rolled over by boulders as big as these cars.”
He said the coroner had no hope of finding any other survivors.
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Colorado State Patrol Trooper Brandon Wilkins tells a driver on Monday the road is closed to while rescuers deal with a rock slide at Agnes Vaille Falls.
“He’s seen the condition of the bodies,” Palmer said, according to the Post. “There is no one alive up there.”
The sheriff declined to name the dead.
Rescuers planned to return to the mountain on Tuesday to recover their bodies.
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