Body of missing Montreal firefighter recovered from St. Lawrence River
CTV
The body of a Montreal firefighter who went under the water Sunday night assisting a boat in distress has been pulled from the water along with the boat he was trapped under.
Montreal fire chief Richard Liebmann confirmed Monday morning that search and rescue crews spotted the missing firefighter with a camera in the Saint Lawrence River among the wreckage of the boat that sunk.
The firefighter went under the water of the St. Lawrence River on Sunday, in Montreal, while rescuing the occupants of a small boat in distress.
Crews used a camera to confirm that the firefighter was trapped under the boat, and the fire chief said later that it would take some time to recover him in the dangerous and fast-moving Lachine Rapids.
Several emergency services were mobilized to locate the firefighter. Teams from the La Prairie, Longueuil, Varennes and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu fire departments were working alongside their Montreal counterparts, as were water patrol officers from the Montreal Police Department (SPVM) and rescue teams from the Canadian Armed Forces.
