California IN BRIEF : EAST PALO ALTO : Boy Rescued After Falling in Creek
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Firefighters rescued a 6-year-old boy Saturday from a fast-moving creek that was near flood level after the week’s storm, officials said. Eric Williams of Redwood City was playing near the creek’s edge with two friends when he slipped in and was carried about 100 yards before being able to grab a tree branch, said Capt. Frank Fraone of the Menlo Park Fire District. “If he’d let go of that branch his next stop would have been the San Francisco Bay,” Fraone said. The boy was being treated for hypothermia at Stanford University hospital.
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