CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ON HIGHWAY 12 REPORTED KAYAKER FLOATING FACEDOWN IN THE RIVER APPROX 60 FROM KAYAK. 

WORKERS PULLED subject FROM THE RIVER AND BEGAN CPR, WHICH WAS CONTINUED UNTIL AIR AMBULANCE TO ST JOSEPH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER BY THAT TIME CPR HAD BEEN IN PROGRESS APPROX 60 MINUTES. NO WITNESS TO ACCIDENT ITSELF. FRIENDS WHO ARRIVED LATER, AND HAD BEEN OUT OF SIGHT UPSTREAM REPORTED THAT subject DENIED AN OFFERED LIFE VEST (PFD). KAYAK WAS BORROWED, IT IS UNKNOWN WHO THE KAYAK WAS BORROWED FROM.
MIDDLE FORK OF CLEARWATER RIVE
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