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CARBON COUNTY, Utah — A Utah sheriff's captain credited the timely arrival of a raft carrying two vacationing paramedics with saving two men whose plane crashed in a remote area.

Carbon County Sheriff's Capt. Guy Adams told the Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday that Duncan and Jon Bridewell were badly injured Sunday when their plane crash-landed along a rock-strewn riverbank in the Green River Valley while en route to Wyoming.

The two brothers were able to get out of the burning plane and were helped off the rocks by a group of rafters, Adams told the Salt Lake Tribune. A short time later, another raft with two emergency medical technicians happened by and rendered first aid.

"If there had not been medical help (along the river), they would not have survived," Adams said.

The EMTs loaded the pair into their raft and continued downriver where the next day they met another raft full of a party of nurses from New Mexico.

The Tribune said the Bridewells were flown by helicopter to University Hospital where they remained on Wednesday.

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