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Drowning-inspired effort buys boat used in rescue
Updated: Monday, 23 Jul 2012, 4:13 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 23 Jul 2012, 3:58 PM EDT
LEESBURG, Ind. (AP) -- The family of a northeast Indiana drowning victim sparked a fundraising effort that has helped save another man.
The Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department credits a recently purchased dive boat with helping to rescue a man from a gravel pit near Leesburg on Sunday night.
The Journal Gazette reports deputies and dive-team members found a 40-year-old man unconscious on a concealed bank of the pit about 40 miles west of Fort Wayne after officers used a portable thermal imager on the dive boat to locate the man. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition after an apparent overdose.
The department recently bought the boat after fundraising initiated by a donation from the family of a man who drowned in a lake in the county last year.
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Information from: The Journal Gazette, http://www.journalgazette.net
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