Coffee County Man Rescued from Cave at Dry Creek

Members of the Smithville-DeKalb County Rescue Squad came to the aid of a Coffee County man in a cave rescue early Sunday morning.
Dustin Johnson, Captain of the Rescue Squad, told WJLE the man was with a group of others deep inside the Indian Grave Point Cave off Frazier Hollow Road at Dry Creek when he found himself trapped down a 60 foot hole in the cave.
“We got the call around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. It was probably more than a mile back in the cave where the man was trapped. There were some places we could walk but we had to do a lot of crawling and bluff climbing to get to him. He was more than 60 feet down in a hole in the cave. Although the man had a rope, he couldn’t get back out. He was trying to come back up on a rope but the wall caves back in making it hard for a lot of people to come back up it. He tried several times to come back up but fell off the rope and finally injured his left arm. We repelled down with harnesses and put a harness on him and then assisted in getting him out of the hole. At around 8:30 a.m. we were back out of the cave and DeKalb EMS took the man to Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office was also on the scene,” said Johnson.