Two kayakers died last week in separate incidents in the Adirondacks.
According to officials with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, forest rangers received a report of a missing kayaker on the Schroon River in Warrensburg, New York, at 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 10.
Rangers joined with New York State Police, the Warrensburg Fire Department, and Warren County Sheriff’s Deputies to search the area behind Library Avenue.
At 9:30 p.m., crews found the kayak, but not the 21-year-old from Yonkers. The Warren County Marine Rescue Team and NYSP Underwater Recovery Team searched into the early morning hours with negative results.
The following day, forest rangers, DEC Environmental Conservation Police, NYSP, Warren County Sheriff’s Deputies, and the North Queensbury Fire Department continued searching. At 7:45 p.m., the NYSP Underwater Recovery Team located the subject deceased.
On Friday, May 15, rangers received a report of a 911 call at 9:48 p.m. reporting two subjects in distress on Lincoln Pond in Elizabethtown, New York.
Three forest rangers arrived on scene and determined it was three subjects who were in the water after their canoe and kayak flipped.
Rangers assisted two of the subjects out of the water. Members of Horicon Fire Department and EMS transported them to Elizabethtown Hospital to treat them for hypothermia.
At 1:04 a.m., the Horicon Fire Department Dive Team recovered the third subject, a 30-year-old from Syracuse, deceased.
