Three Good Samaritans are being hailed a hero after he came to the rescue after a driver whose car went into Lake Minnetonka and was starting to sink underwater.
Updated: 9:49 PM CDT July 26, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS A dead body was discovered floating in the Mississippi River around 7:30 p.m. Monday night, several feet from the shore just south of the Franklin Avenue Bridge.
According to a press release from the Minneapolis Fire Department, after fire crews were dispatched to recover the body, the Hennepin County Water Patrol took over the scene.
The sex and age of the body are still unknown.
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A body was recovered from the Mississippi River Saturday morning in north Minneapolis.
About 8:45 a.m., a passerby spotted what appeared to be a body floating in the river, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff s Office. Minneapolis police arrived and confirmed that it was a body.
The Hennepin County Water Patrol, detectives and crime lab personnel responded to the scene near N. 26th Avenue and Pacific Drive and retrieved the body. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner s Office is working to identify the deceased.
No further information was available late Saturday.
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Only a handful of fishing boats dotted Cruiser s Cove when Sgt. Bret Cline of the Hennepin County Water Patrol navigated the popular Lake Minnetonka party spot last week.
But he knows it will be a different scene over the July 4th weekend, when hot and sunny weather will bring scores of boaters to the bay for drinking and partying.
With 29 drownings already reported on Minnesota s lakes, rivers and pools this year, Cline and other water safety officials are bracing for the same possible deadly combination cited in many of those cases: hot weather, large gatherings and carelessness. When you re looking at the non-boating drownings, it s a wide age range of people who are becoming victims on the water, and it s a wide range of contributing factors, said Lisa Dugan, a boat and water safety coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. She attributes the increase in drownings to more people being out on the water. An unseaso
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