Ko ngā hōia o te Ope Taua o Amerika o te Arizona National Guard e ārahi ana i ngā tūruhi i mauheretia e te waipuke ohorere ki roto i te UH-60 Blackhawk, Rāhoroi, 24 o Ākuhata, 2024, i te Havasupai Rahui i Supai, Ariz. (Meia Erin Hannigan/US Army mā AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE, NM (AP) — He waipuke ohorere i huri i te raupapa o ngā rerenga wai ataahua, kikorangi hei pahuka parauri whakamataku, he mea nanakia engari ehara i te mea rerekē mō te wā ua raumati i te Havasupai rahui, tētahi o ngā wāhi tino tawhiti o te whenua nui o Amerika e kukume ana i ngā manuhiri puta noa i te ao.
Engari i tēnei wā, ko te ngaru o te wai i akiaki i ngā rau o ngā kaihaerere ki te rapu i ngā whenua teitei — ko ētahi i roto i ngā kokonga me ngā ana i roto i ngā pakitara o te awaawa — i huri hei mate whakamate. I kahakina atu tētahi wahine ki te Awa o Colorado i roto i te Grand Canyon, ā, i tīmata ai te mahi rapu me te whakaora i roto i te Ratonga Pāka ā-Motu i roto i tētahi taiao ahurei kāore e taea te toro atu e ngā waea pūkoro, i roto i ngā awaawa koraha e taea ana te haere mā te waewae, te muera, te hērakapeta rānei. E toru ngā rā i muri mai, ā, 19 maero (30 kiromita) te heke iho, ka whakatauhia te rapu e tētahi rōpū waka rere whakangahau. I muri iho, ka piri ngā morehu me ngā kaiwhakaora ki ngā kōrero mō te pouri, te whakawhetai me te whakaute ki ngā wai i huri hei tutu ohorere.
Tuatahi te ua, kātahi ka pōrearea
I tīmata te rā o te waipuke ohorere i mua i te ata mō ngā kaihaere e heke ana ki roto i te awaawa matomato i runga i te hikoi 8-maero (13-kiromita) i ngā ara whakawhiti ki tētahi kāinga i waenganui o te whenua rāhui o Havasupai.
Mai i reira, ka hikoi ngā tūruhi ki ngā wāhi e hiahia ana rātou kia haere — he maha ngā rerenga wai whakahīhī me te puni i te taha o te awaawa. Ko ngā wai kikorangi-kakariki o te awaawa e kukume ana i ngā tūruhi mai i te ao katoa.
I haere mai a Hanna St. Denis, 33 tau te pakeke, he kaiwhakaora tinana, mai i Los Angeles ki te kite i ngā mea whakamiharo o te taiao i tana haerenga hīkoi tuara tuatahi mō te pō, me tētahi hoa, i haere i te ara i mua i te ata o te Taite whakamutunga, ā, ka tae ki te wairere whakamutunga o ngā wairere rongonui e toru i te poutumarotanga.
Ka tae mai te ua tonu. I raro i ngā Wairere o Beaver, ka kite tetahi kauhoe i te tere haere o te ia. Ka tīmata te wai ki te pupuhi mai i ngā pakitara o te awaawa, ka nekehia ngā toka i te mea ka huri te awa ki te tae tiakarete, ka pupuhi.
"I te āhua parauri haere ngā taha, ā, i te whānui haere, kātahi ka puta mātou i reira," te kī a St. Denis. I piki ia me ētahi atu kaihiki i tētahi arawhata ki te whenua teitei ake, kāore he ara heke iho i te pikinga o te wai. "I mātakitaki mātou i ngā rākau nunui e hutia ana me ngā pakiaka, mai i te whenua."
Kāore i taea e ia te karanga āwhina, te kite rānei i te kokonga e whai ake nei o te awaawa.
I tētahi puni e tata ana, ka kite a Michael Langer, 55 tau te pakeke o Fountain Hills, Arizona, i te wai e maringi ana mai i ētahi atu wāhi ki roto i te awaawa.
"Tekau hēkona i muri i tērā, ka oma mai tētahi mema o te iwi i roto i ngā puni me te karanga, 'Waipuke ohorere, whakawātea ohorere, oma ki te whenua teitei,'" te kōrero a Langer.
I tata atu, ka pupū ake te whatitiri o Mooney Falls ki tētahi rahi whakaharahara, i te mea ka oma atu ngā kaihikiki kua makuku ki tētahi papa teitei, ka piri ki roto i ngā kapiti.
Ngā tohu mamae
I te 1:30 i te ahiahi, ka tīmata ngā āpiha o te Papa Whenua ā-Motu o Grand Canyon e tata ana ki te whenua o Havasupai ki te whiwhi waeatanga āwhati mai i ngā taputapu hono amiorangi ka taea te tuku matohi SOS, karere kuputuhi me ngā waea reo ki ngā wāhi e kore e tae atu ngā waea pūkoro.
"Nā te whaiti o taua awaawa, he tino uaua ki te whakapā atu; kāore i te mārama te nui o te ora me te whara o te tangata i te tīmatanga," te kī a Joelle Baird, he kaikorero mō te papa.
I raru te pāka i ngā pūrongo nui mō ngā matenga nui, engari i whakaūtia he kaupapa whakamataku tēnei. Tokorua ngā kaihaere - he tāne me tana wahine - i kahakina e te waipuke ohorere i a rāua e hikoi ana i te taha o te wāhi e rere ana a Havasu Creek ki te awa o Colorado.
I te 4 i te ahiahi, nā te pakaru o te rangi i āhei ai te pāka ki te tuku i tētahi hērakapeta me te whakarite i tētahi tirotiro whenua tere i te rohe, e ai ki a Baird.
I taua pō, i kohia a Andrew Nickerson, te tāne, e tētahi rōpū e hoe waka ana i te awa e 280 maero (450 kiromita) te roa e rere ana i roto i te Grand Canyon.
"E tata ana ahau ki te mate i te wā i peke mai ai tētahi tauhou i tana waka awa, ā, i tūpono tōna ora, kāore i whakaroa, ki te whakaora i ahau i te wai e ngaru ana," te tuhituhi a Nickerson i muri mai i runga i ngā pāpāho pāpori.
I kahakina tana wahine, a Chenoa Nickerson, 33 tau te pakeke, ki roto i te awaawa matua o te awa, ā, kāore i kitea. I puta he panui rapu i te Paraire mō tētahi wahine parauri ngaro, he roa, he kanohi kikorangi. Pērā i te nuinga o ngā kaihaerere i Havasupai, kāore ia i te mau i tētahi koti ora.
Te wā waipuke ohorere
I kī a Erinanne Saffell, he tohunga āhuarangi nō te kawanatanga o Arizona, he nui te waipuke ohorere i roto i te awaawa, engari he rerekē, ahakoa te kore whakaaro ki te mahana o te ao nā te tangata i hua ake ai ngā āhuatanga kino rawa atu o te rangi.
"He wāhanga tēnei o te wā ua nui, ā, ka heke te ua, kāore he wāhi hei haere, nō reira ka taea e ia te rere atu, ka pā kino ki te hunga e arai ana," tana kī.
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Wā tuku: Hepetema-02-2024