How a Big Island Family's Tragedy is Saving Lives Today

Hawaii

How A ig Island Famil’s Traged Is aving Lives Toda A couple lost their son in a hiking fall 20 ears ago. The turned their grief into a memorial foundation raising mone for lifeguards and re ghters.  Nathan agle    / Januar 31, 2017

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In late August 1997, Daniel are set o for the 500-foot Kapaloa Falls in the ack of Pololu Valle on the rugged north shore of the ig Island. The 25-ear-old wanted photos of his “cathedral” to take with him ack to college on the mainland. ut that all changed in an instant when he fell o the trail, plummeting hundreds of feet onto a rock ledge near the falls. He was ling there motionless when a rescue team from the Hawaii Count Fire Department joined his parents in the search.