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Theres not much runway. its a lot of rock and brush. >> chris handly, a 15-year-old belt on local, is one of the teens. >> if you jump properly, you have no problems, you dont hit the bottom and bounce back up. and keep having fun. >> but if the jump falls short -- >> you land in water thats about this deep with jagged big rocks underneath. >> as the boys take turns launching themselves off the cliff and into the water below, a crowd begins to gather. >> i kind of felt obligated to do something,...

From a dare. >> it finally gets lit. >> yes! go! >> i felt rushed because the fire was going out fast. we used everything we had to make the fire. >> chris rushes to pull down his shorts before the dying fire goes out. but as he runs for the cliff, his friends can see that his swimming trunks never come completely off. >> as soon as i saw his shorts get caught, i instantly knew something bad was going to happen. >> chris trips just before the jump and falls 20 feet over the cliffs edge. >> he di...

>> as chris tries to light the bush on fire, cameras roll from above and below. jay jones is one of the teens filming. >> i was in between the bush and chris on top of the cliff filming. i guess mainly the only thing i was worried about was getting the bush lit on fire. ive seen chris jump over that bush before. >> you can hear jay shouting to make the fire bigger. >> thats not enough. >> first we tried lighter fluid. and it wasnt making a dramatic enough effect on the bush. so then it turned to...

He could have very easily broken his neck from the fall and could be dead. we might have just seen our friend die. >> chris handly makes it to the hospital. and after five hours of brain surgery, he emerges alive. >> had a subdural and epidural hematoma. both the outside and inside of my brain were bleeding which was causing intracranial pressure. the doctors said i was really, really, really close to the point of not being able to come back. >> while chris may have eluded permanent physical inj...

They fear they may have just filmed their friends death. >> call 911 right now! >> one of the first things that popped in my head was he could very easily be dead. he could have very easily broken his neck from the fall and could be dead. we might have just seen our friend die. >> chris handly makes it to the hospital. and after five hours of brain surgery, he emerges alive. >> had a subdural and epidural hematoma. both the outside and the inside of my brain was bleeding, which was causing intra...

Twice. he jumps in after chris. >> as soon as he surfaced, i saw him floating there. >> he was like a bobber on a fishing line. >> chris body quickly begins to sink beneath the surface. >> we thought he might have just been passed out at first. thats when we started seeing the blood emerge. thats when things got real serious. >> call 911! >> luckily one of the boats of onlookers happen to be a group of army medics from fort hood. they immediately jump into action and swim toward chris. as the me...

>> as chris tries to light the bush on fire, cameras roll from above and below. jay jones is one of the teens filming. >> i was in between the bush and chris on top of the cliff filming. i guess mainly the only thing i was worried about was getting the bush lit on fire. ive seen chris jump over that bush before. >> you can hear jay shouting to make the fire bigger. >> thats not enough. >> first we tried lighter fluid. and it wasnt making a dramatic enough effect on the bush. so then it turned to...

He could have very easily broken his neck from the fall and could be dead. we might have just seen our friend die. >> chris handly makes it to the hospital. and after five hours of brain surgery, he emerges alive. >> had a subdural and epidural hematoma. it was causing intercranial pressure. the doctors said i was really, really, really close to the point of not being able to come back. >> while chris may have eluded permanent injury, he and his friends are scarred from the memory of that day. t...

>> yes! go! >> i felt rushed because the fire was going out fast. we used everything we had to make the fire. >> chris rushes to pull down his shorts before the dying fire goes out. but as he runs for the cliff, his friends can see that his swimming trunks never come completely off. >> as soon as i saw his shorts get caught, i instantly knew something bad was going to happen. >> chris trips just before the jump and falls 20 feet over the cliffs edge. >> he didnt jump out at all. his forward mome...

He jumps in after chris. >> as soon as he surfaced, i saw him floating there. >> he was like a bobber on a fishing line. >> chris body quickly begins to sink beneath the surface. >> we thought he might have just been passed out at first. thats when we started seeing the blood emerge. thats when things got real serious. >> call 911! >> luckily one of the boats of onlookers happen to be a group of army medics from ft. hood. action and swim toward chris. as the medics try and stabilize chris, his f...