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Search Resumes Today For Missing Boater On Washington County Lake
Authorities in Washington County will resume searching for a missing boater today, Thursday, October 19, 2023, on and around Pike Lake, just east of Hartford.
Around 10:30 last night, the man’s wife called The Washington County Communications Center to report her husband hadn’t returned from a fishing trip on the lake. The Department of Natural Resources deployed some search boats and found the mans boat overturned but he was nowhere to be found.
Multiple fire department dive teams were paged to start searching the waters, as well as UTVs to search the surrounding shoreline.
The search was suspended at 12:45 AM and will resume today at daybreak.
Pike Lake has an area of 461 acres and is 45 feet deep at its deepest point.
KFIZ will bring you updates to this story as they are released.