Rotary Screw Trap

While floating in inner tubes down the American River near Sacramento, a woman claims she was sucked into a rotary screw trap operated by federal and state marine biologists and would have drowned had her son not wedged the blades and pulled her free.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — While floating in inner tubes down the American River near Sacramento, a woman claims she was sucked into a rotary screw trap operated by federal and state marine biologists and would have drowned had her son not wedged the blades and pulled her free.

Categories / Government, Personal Injury, Regional

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