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Utah brothers survive avalanche after one pulls other out of snow burial
Two brothers are lucky to be alive this holiday season after being caught up in an avalanche that buried one brother under snow.
The avalanche happened on Christmas Eve in the Steep Hollow area of Franklin Basin in Cache County, FOX 13 News Utah reported.
The local TV station said the men were riding snowmobiles when one of them triggered the avalanche.
One of the brothers was carried for about 150 yards prior to being fully buried, according to an incident report from the Utah Avalanche Center.
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The men involved in the avalanche on Christmas Eve were prepared with backcountry travel equipment, according to FOX 13 News Utah. (Utah Avalanche Center)
“He was recovered by his brother, who used a transceiver to get close enough to see a couple of fingers of a gloved hand sticking out of the snow,” the report said.
The elevation of the avalanche was about 9,000 feet. The area where it happened had a “persistent weak layer,” the incident report said.
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The avalanche occurred at an elevation of 9,000 feet, according to a notice from the Utah Avalanche Center. (Utah Avalanche Center)
“I could see his hand, his gloves, kind of poking out, waving,” Braeden Hansen told NBC News about his brother Hunter. “But, by the time I got to him, he was about 2 feet, his head was about 2 feet under the snow.”
“I just cleared the snow away from his head and got his helmet off so that he could start breathing again and then just started digging his body out from there,” he said.
After one man pulled his brother from the snow, the two men doubled up on a snowmobile and headed out of the backcountry. (Utah Avalanche Center)
The two then doubled up and rode out of the backcountry, the avalanche center said.
The brother who was buried sustained minor injuries, according to FOX 13.
“Those guys had a very, very lucky Christmas Eve,” Utah Avalanche Center forecaster Toby Weed told the local station. “No. 1, always access and read the forecast. The forecast that day, it was considerable avalanche as it is the avalanche danger, and that’s actually the same danger that it is here in Logan today.”
Avalanche dangers in the mountains of northern Utah and southeast Idaho are “widespread” heading into the weekend, according to the avalanche center.
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A Texas man is being charged with attempting to smuggle over 100 illegal immigrants into the U.S. in a locked tractor trailer.
Juan Manuel Aguirre, 49, is facing a three-count indictment of conspiracy to transport an undocumented alien within the United States and the transportation of an undocumented alien within the United States for financial gain, according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas on Monday.
Aguirre, a resident of the South Texas city of Laredo, was observed by law enforcement loading a large group of migrants into a white trailer in a warehouse parking lot on Dec. 2. After it departed, authorities conducted a traffic stop on the white truck hauling the trailer and allegedly found 101 undocumented immigrants, including 12 unaccompanied children, crammed in.
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The Justice Department statement said two of the migrants reported having difficulty breathing and feared for their lives due to the conditions in the trailer.
Aguirre is facing 10 years in prison for each of the three counts and fines of up to $250,000.
The number of individuals sentenced for alien smuggling offenses in the U.S. has steadily risen under the Biden administration, reaching 4,731 in fiscal year 2023, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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The top five districts for human smuggling are all along the southern border. With Texas accounting for over 60% of the U.S. border with Mexico, the top two districts for human smuggling were both in Texas.
There were 64,124 alien smuggling offense cases reported in 2023. About 10% of alien smuggling cases involve unaccompanied minors.
In October, local news source KGNS reported a concerning rise in human smuggling incidents in Laredo, resulting in high-risk vehicle pursuits and other dangerous situations.
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Earlier this month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched a new billboard ad campaign in Mexico and Central America to warn potential illegal migrants of the dangers of attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally.
“We’re here to expose the truth to immigrants who are thinking about coming here, the truth about the traffickers who assault so many of the women and children along the way,” the governor said. “The message is: Do not risk a dangerous trip just to be arrested and deported.”
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Police in Anaheim shot and killed a man that they say was suspected of robbery on Friday night.
The officers were called to a reported robbery at about 8 p.m. in the 1200 block of E. South Street, according to the Anaheim Police Department.
After arriving to the scene, four officers were involved in a shooting with the suspect, a man police said was about 30 years old.
He was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene; he has yet to be publicly identified as of early Saturday morning.
Police said a realistic-looking replica gun was found at the scene. No additional details about the shooting were immediately made available.
The California Department of Justice, among other agencies, will investigate the incident.
In a rare return to the Southern California coast, a beloved family of orcas made a few star appearances for whale watchers on Friday.
Lucky viewers got to witness a visit from a mother killer whale and three of her offspring around 9 a.m. off Laguna Beach and then again in the afternoon in Newport Beach, according to Davey’s Locker Whale Watching.
A company representative said this particular pod of orcas is well known among California whale-watching enthusiasts as the CA51 pod is “a family of orcas with a reputation for their playful nature interacting with boats.”
Footage from Friday’s sightings shows Star, the mother, who is about 40 years old, her two sons Orion and Bumper – Bumper is purportedly known for his 6-foot tall dorsal fin and playful behavior around boats – and Star’s daughter, Comet.
These killer whales were last seen on Dec. 15 about 17 miles off the Orange County coast, according to Davey’s Locker Whale Watching, but, before then, the CA51 pod hadn’t been seen locally in around six years.
Experts said the members of this family are also referred to as ‘transient’ orcas, meaning they cover a large range between southeast Alaska to the Mexico border.
“Lucky passengers aboard our whale watching boats were thrilled to see this family of orcas again today, as they used to be one of the most frequently-sighted killer whale pods in Southern California between 2012-2018, but now, we don’t encounter them much at all,” said a company representative in a release.
Although a clear reason for their change of routine is not yet known, experts said the pod’s diet leads them to wherever seals and sea lions are plentiful.
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