{"id":95499,"date":"2024-05-01T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/tennessee-hiker-drowns-trying-to-save-woman-who-fell-into-creek-rescuers-recover-both-bodies-95499"},"modified":"2024-05-01T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:20:51","slug":"tennessee-hiker-drowns-trying-to-save-woman-who-fell-into-creek-rescuers-recover-both-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/tennessee-hiker-drowns-trying-to-save-woman-who-fell-into-creek-rescuers-recover-both-bodies-95499","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee hiker drowns trying to save woman who fell into creek; rescuers recover both bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A 23-year-old woman and 20-year-old man drowned near a hiking trail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/tennessee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Tennessee<\/a> on Sunday after the woman fell into a creek and the man jumped in to try and save her, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded around 7:13 p.m. to a 911 call about the pair going underwater near Rainbow Lake Trail in Signal Mountain, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Signal Mountain Police Department<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders hiked about a mile down the trail when they encountered a woman waiting for them to arrive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman told officials that she was with a group of three to four people who hiked on the trail to a large creek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/climber-alaska-denali-park-national-park-dies-2-fall-1000-feet-off-mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLIMBER IN ALASKA&#8217;S DENALI NATIONAL PARK DIES AFTER 2 FALL 1,000 FEET OFF MOUNTAIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One woman tried to cross the creek but fell into a &#8220;drop off&#8221; and went underwater, according to authorities. A man from their group then jumped in after her, but the pair never resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Police and fire personnel jumped into the water to find and rescue both victims, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers found the woman in the water and pulled her onto land. They performed life-saving measures on the woman, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials requested additional assistance while searching for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/missing-persons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing man.<\/a> His body was eventually recovered from the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-man-falls-300-feet-death-hiking-wife-oregon-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CALIFORNIA MAN FALLS 300 FEET TO DEATH WHILE HIKING WITH WIFE ALONG OREGON COAST<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police later identified the woman as 23-year-old\u00a0Greffania Merilus, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cohutta, Gerogia,<\/a> and the man as 20-year-old\u00a0Gullson Elve, of Birchwood, Tennessee, <a href=\"https:\/\/newschannel9.com\/news\/local\/two-people-drowned-near-rainbow-lake-trail-sunday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News Channel 9<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials told the station that the pair were &#8220;really close friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following the two deaths, Signal Mountain Town Council Member Susannah Murdock told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local3news.com\/local-news\/signal-mountain-officials-residents-react-to-deaths-of-two-hikers-at-rainbow-lake-trail\/article_0135b56a-066c-11ef-9ea2-9bf812be7b49.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Local 3 News<\/a> that she is calling for additional signage along the trail to warn hikers about potential dangers in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got this pretty sign up here that says Rainbow Lake and it\u2019s a beautiful place down there, but they don\u2019t know the terrain is rocky and bumpy and can be steep in places,&#8221; Murdock said. &#8220;When we\u2019ve had a lot of rain, there\u2019s water that flows down there pretty rapidly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tennessee-hiker-drowns-trying-save-woman-fell-creek-rescuers-recover-bodies\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tennessee-hiker-drowns-trying-save-woman-fell-creek-rescuers-recover-bodies <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old woman and 20-year-old man drowned near a hiking trail in Tennessee on Sunday after the woman fell into a creek and the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-95499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tennessee hiker drowns trying to save woman who fell into creek; 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