One teenage boy was seriously injured and another was charged with trespassing after being rescued from an abandoned missile silo in Colorado.
An 18-year-old man fell about 30 feet into an underground silo near the town of Deer Trail around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. According to a press release, the high school student and his friend crawled through a broken gate at the entrance to the silo.
At around 6am, two of the victim’s unharmed friends, who remained with him until help arrived, were rescued from the silo. Rescuers arrived at the victim 30 minutes later. He was removed from the silo at 8:30 a.m. and taken to the hospital by Air Life Denver with “serious injuries.”
In addition to the three youths who were in the underground silo when rescuers arrived, five youths were also contacted on the ground. The group consisted of both boys and girls. One of the men, an 18-year-old male who was inside the silo, received a summons for third-degree criminal trespass. Injured victims who are expected to survive could also be charged with trespassing.
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The other teens were released to their parents pending trespassing charges. Investigators say all those involved attend Cherry Creek Schools high school in the Denver metropolitan area.
local tv station FOX31 Denver The silo, located near 82000 E. County Road 22, was found abandoned since the 1960s. Rescue workers described the silo as a “chaos” with “twisted metal, collapsed floors and concrete debris everywhere”.
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Rescue workers sit on a cliff above an abandoned missile silo near Deer Trail, Colorado, on May 5, 2024. (Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, via Twitter)
Rescue workers had to airlift a teenage boy to the hospital after falling about 30 feet into an abandoned missile silo. (Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, via Twitter)
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There was no cellphone reception inside the silo, and rescue workers told FOX31 the injured boy was “lucky to be alive.”
Firefighters from Sable Altura Fire, Bennett Watkins Fire, South Metro Fire Rescue, Agate Fire Rescue, and Deer Trail Fire Rescue were also on scene to assist with the rescue.
