Mike Wahlerg, Garden City fire chief, said the boaters were in the water for at least two hours amid waves that reached 10 feet high and frothed in the wind as rescuers searched for them.
Four dead, including 3 children, after storm causes boat to capsize in frigid Utah lake
Four people, including three children, died Monday at a Utah lake when high waves and violent winds caused their boat to capsize.
The bad weather at Bear Lake in Utah hampered rescue efforts as it took at least two hours to find the missing boaters. Three others were eventually pulled from the choppy waters and were hospitalized.
Utah doctor Lance Capener, 46, took the ski boat out with his wife, Kathy, 42, their two daughters, and three of the girls’ friends, authorities said.
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