Around 09:35, Aug 3, 2023 a call came out for a drowning at Sand Hollow. Victim had no life jacket. I arrived at the park about 45 min later. As I came into the main boat ramp area, I saw Washington County Search and Rescue already staging. 

Ranger was off duty fishing on the lake when the call came out. He had already been out to the scene and was coming back in just after I arrived. I went out on the boat with him to see what we could do. We went across the lake to the South side. We arrived at the forth buoy from the West dam. I found a few family members and three Hurricane Valley Fire EMT's on a ten year old Supreme boat. I spoke with the mother of the drowned teen. The boat was circling around the buoy in hopes to find something. It was now about an hour after the time of drowning. I sent the boat back to the beach to create more space for the dive boat that was incoming. 

Hurricane City came into the park a little before me and they were staged on the beach. They took care of interviewing the family and investigating the details surrounding the drowning. Just before 12:30 our Sand Hollow ranger boat was able to locate something resembling a body on our fish finder. A diver went down and was able to locate the body and tie a line on it. Another two divers went down with a bag and were able to recover the body. The majority of this was recorded on an aquatic drone camera. The body was transported to the Sand Hollow maintenance shop, where it was turned over to ME. For Hurricane PD reports refer to Incident #: 23H005271


There is very little information but it appears the victim fell overboard.  THere was a disability involved. 
Sand Hollow Reservoir
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