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The Natrona County Fire District recently announced that they were called to Independence Rock to perform a rope rescue of a woman who got stuck on the edge.

According to a prepared statement, crews were called to a structure fire in the 2800 block of East 12th Street at 10:48 p.m. Friday.

A 48-year-old Craig, Colorado man is behind bars after allegedly kidnapping a woman at gunpoint in Rio Blanco County and taking her to a Cheyenne motel.

Authorities in Carbon County made two separate rescues to wrap up the new year.

"As soon as I saw it start separating, I yelled at everybody, trying to tell everybody to get off the ice," Jay Fountain told K2 Radio News. "At that point, it had been like, maybe three minutes and it was already way too far. Nobody could get off."

The un-named deputy made a harrowing rescue on Sunday, October 3rd when he rescued a passenger from a vehicle that was submerged in water.

It was a busy day for Park County Search and Rescue on Friday last week.

Agencies from two Wyoming counties helped rescue a woman who was "ejected" from a horse in a Wyoming canyon last week.

Firefighters in Gillette were busy with a different kind of rescue Friday morning.

State police said safety chains on a trailer saved a pickup and the two people in it from plummeting to the bottom of a Magic Valley canyon Monday afternoon along Interstate 84.