A park ranger died Sunday at Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota after his rescue vessel capsized while helping three civilians stranded in rough weather.
A park ranger died Sunday at a Minnesota national park when his rescue boat capsized on a lake while helping three family members stranded in high winds and rough waters, officials said. The ranger, who has yet to be publicly identified, responded late Sunday morning to a call about a distressed civilian vessel on Namakan Lake at Voyageurs National Park, the National Park Service said. The ranger’s boat capsized as it towed the civilian vessel on the lake.
Rangers, along with U.S. Border Patrol, St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, and Kabetogama Fire Department, performed a three-hour search and recovered the missing ranger’s body from the lake at 3:20 p.m., NPS said. Lashing winds had caused waves between five and six feet high at the time the ranger was helping the family, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported. St.
He was just all about helping others and that’s what he died doing was helping others,' Ramsay told the Star Tribune. 'He had a servant’s heart by all accounts.' The ranger is the second to die at a national park in a matter of months. In June, 78-year-old Park Ranger Tom Lorig died in Utah after suffering injuries in a fall while working with visitors at Bryce Canyon National Park’s annual Astronomy Festival. The incident at Voyageurs National Park remains under investigation.
Voyageurs National Park is located in northern Minnesota, with Namakan Lake sitting near the Canadian border.
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