Salt Lake City fire chief identified as man killed in Green River rafting accident

Michael Harp, 50, fell out of the raft in the rapids of the Hells Half Mile on Thursday

Dinosaur, Colorado • A 27-year veteran of the Salt Lake City Fire Department has been identified as the man who died in a rafting accident on Colorado’s Green River in Dinosaur National Monument.

Captain Michael Harp was on a permitted private tour on the river Thursday when staff were notified of a boat stuck on a rock in the Hells Half Mile rapids, a Class III/IV rapid.

Harp, 50, was missing from the raft and believed to be under the watercraft. When the group was later able to secure the boat, Harp was discovered unconscious before floating downstream without his life jacket removed.

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