RedactedNarrative: A commissioned law enforcement officer with the Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism was on duty in Osage county on June 5th,2021 and I received a text from Coffey County dispatch at 1833hrs of a boat accident at Burlington city dam. I was informed of two adults and two children that were on a boat and went over the dam and the boat capsized.
  
  The family had put in at the River Side West boat ramp on the Neosho River that was flowing at approximately 9,000cfs. The family just bought the boat and was having trouble with the motor. With the motor running they travelled downstream past the public use area heading towards the low head dam, owned by the City of Burlington. Unaware of the dam, the operator placed the motor in reverse when observing rapids. The motor stalled and the operator could not get the motor restarted. Before the boat went over the low head dam the operator of the boat grabbed his two children. The occupants of the boat were ejected and placed into the boil of the low head dam.
  
  The operator of the boat was the only individual that did not have a life jacket on. OPERATOR 1 was trying to get on top of the overturned boat along with one of the children before the water boil sucked the boat back under. During this time, the adult male was pushed out of the boil and grabbed onto a tree where he was later rescued by Coffey County water rescue.
  
  The other three individuals remained trapped in the boil. Shortly after the adult male was rescued Coffey County dispatched that a child was face down flailing their arms floating down the river just pasted the East River bridge. Coffey County water rescue and I found the child floating motionless a half mile passed the bridge. Water rescue recovered him and took him to an awaiting EMS.
  
  Searching downstream, I retrieved a life jacket out of the water. Water rescue located an adult female that was submerged below where the life jacket was located that I had retrieved. It was determined that the life jacket had been worn by her.
  
  Soon after the adult female was located and retrieved, the last child was located near the dam. All the individuals involved in the accident were transported to the Burlington Hospital. OPERATOR 1, the operator of the boat was the lone survivor as the other three occupants were pronounced deceased.
  
  On 8/28/2021 I received the autopsy results of the three indivudals from Frontier Forensics involved in the boating accident determinding all three passed from drowning. Nothing further to report. 
  
  The investigation of the deaths and boating incident is ongoing and awaiting the results of the autopsies.
  Diagram: A- direction of boat when stalled, B- where boat had gone over the low had dam, C- where boat was stuck in boil, D- resting place of boat after water was shut off.
  