Who: 40-year-old Matthew Chidgey
Where: Wildwood Regional Park, California
His mistake: He was alone and possibly ventured too close to a swollen river
What happened: A man was anxious to see some nearby waterfalls after a large storm. He asked his roommate to go, but the roommate declined, so the man went by himself.
When the man didn’t return by the night time, his roommate reported him missing. More than 40 members of search and rescue teams looked for the man. The next morning, rescuers and family members also looking for him, found the lifeless body in a rain-swollen creek at the bottom of a steep, rugged canyon.
Authorities would like to remind hikers that rivers can stay swollen and potentially dangerous more than three days after the rainstorm.
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