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Recent Incidents
1 Missing, 5 Rescued After Boat Plunges Over Dam
April 29th, 2007, 2:27 PM
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SUNDAY APRIL 29, 2007 - LTFD boat 6-6 assisted Rawlinsville Fire Company with a water rescue at the Holtwood Dam on the Susquehanna River.
Rescue crews were searching for a 16-year-old Lancaster County girl who was missing after a boat she was in went over the Holtwood Dam.
The girl was one of six passengers in a 16-foot motor-boat that drifted over the dam Sunday afternoon, plummeting more than 50 feet into the Susquehanna River, police said.
The five other passengers, also from Lancaster County, were airlifted from the area by a Maryland State Police helicopter. They were treated at Lancaster General Hospital for minor injuries, state police Trooper John Smith said.
K. Derek Pritts, waterways conservation officer for Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, gave the following account after conducting hospital interviews with the five who were rescued.
Jennifer Whitton led a group out on her new boat from the launch at Pequea Creek Sunday afternoon.
This was Whitton's first time out on the water with the boat, which was rated to hold a maximum of six people, Pritts said.
The party traveled out into the middle of the river to have lunch. The motor was shut off while they ate.
Pritts said they could not restart the motor after they finished eating.
He said the boaters threw out an anchor to try to hold the boat in place, but it didn't catch.
The boat drifted about 300 yards before it went over the Holtwood Dam about 2:25 p.m.
All six people in the boat jumped out either just before the boat went over the dam or as it was going over, Pritts said.
All but two of the boaters were wearing personal floatation devices. The missing girl was one of the four wearing floatation devices.
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