An Idaho event scheduled as an alternative to West Virginia's Bridge Day is in jeopardy.
The Charleston Gazette reports some residents of Twin Falls, Idaho, have asked BASE jumpers to cancel the Idaho event after a series of BASE jumping accidents there and elsewhere last month left three people dead.
The Idaho event was scheduled after organizers of the original Bridge Day, in Fayette County, announced that new security measures would be in place for jumpers and vendors at the West Virginia event this fall.
BASE stands for Building, Antenna, Span and Earth, which are the four types of fixed points jumpers leap from with parachutes. About 450 of them typically turn out to jump off the New River Gorge Bridge every third Saturday in October.