Life, the Obstacle Course

Filming in the Fairy Valley, Two Crew Members Drowned to Death, the Location Had Taken Ten Lives in Five Short Years from Before

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Despite the precedence, of drowning already, and the film crews still decided, to film at this, particular location???  Yeah, that’s, sound all right (sarcasm again, I’m afraid, go the best of me here!!!), off of the Newspapers, translated…

There was the awful news of the photographer of a filming crew, Huang and his assistant, Wang falling into the lagoon of the rock formations at Fairy Valley yesterday, the rescue squad sent out the helicopters to rescue, lifted the individuals out, but both still passed away.  The location of the accident, was the location where the movie, Warriors of the Rainbow, was filmed, but the rocks were covered with mosses, slippery, wet, and even as the precautions had been set up, but, in recent years, there’d been many drownings of tourists and visitors often, in the past, in just five years, the location took at least ten lives, becoming the “valley of death”.

The local county manager, Lo told, that this film crew sent out the papers, filed for entry to the location from March tenth to the fifteenth, a total of six days, with the total number of actors, actresses, and filming crew of eighty personnel staff, filming the series, “Embrace”, the Fairy Valley is a public location, and the county offices asked the crew to not make any excessive trash, or destroy the natural environment, and mentioned to them to watch out for safety, and yet, the accident still occurred.

the location where the drownings happened

from a higher up angle…photo courtesy of UDN.com

The local fire department pointed out, that they received the calls at 3:49 in the afternoon yesterday, that there was an accidental drowning in the valley, they’d sent four separate squads to the location to conduct the rescue.  Based off of the workers on site, the thirty-eight-year-old photographer, and the thirty-four year-old assistant, Wang, when the crew was finished filming, one of them accidentally, slipped, and the other tried to help him up, and also, fell to below into the lagoons, by the time the two were rescued out, they were both in cardiac arrest, the rescuers sent the ropes to lift them out by air, with the emergency helicopters rescuing, but, after the emergency resuscitation measures, both still died.

The location of the filming is a notable scenic region of the local tribal area, the lagoon was where the estuaries came together, the estuaries created the cliffs with the dual waterfalls, very majestic, not only is the location a notable sight, but also, where the filming of a lot of movies took place, but there were the mosses on the riverbanks up above, more slippery than it’d looked, there’d been many accidental deaths from earlier years, and the national park managing offices set up the treks, and prohibited the visitors to get close to the riverbed above the rock formations, and, it’s much safer now, to visit this location compared to the past, and yet, there’s the accidents here.

the rescue being, conducted…

photo provided by a member of the local regions, off of UDN.com

And so, because of how the film crews weren’t careful enough, it’d resulted in these accidental deaths, and, this is just one of the unexpected results of this getting the scenes somewhere beautiful to film, not realizing how dangerous the location can be, that’s caused, lives to get, lost.

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