Fatal fishing incident on Chemong Lake
Curve Lake members help OPP pull people out of the water
One person is dead, two are hurt and one was missing Sunday evening after an incident on Chemong Lake.
Freelance journalist Harrison Perkins first reported Sunday that four people were in a fishing boat that capsized near Curve Lake First Nation. Police were called at about 6:40 a.m.
“Members of the Peterborough County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and emergency crews were called to assist at a boat accident on Chemong Lake off the shores of Curve Lake First Nation,” the OPP reported in a statement issued Sunday afternoon.
Three of the people in the water, a man and two women, were rescued by OPP with the help of Curve Lake community members, police say, and taken to a hospital by Peterborough paramedics.
The man was pronounced
“We have a wonderful community and we have alerted that we have all available resources in assisting in any way we can.”
EMILY WHETUNG
CURVE LAKE CHIEF
dead there, while one of the women has life-threatening injuries and the other has minor injuries, police say.
By Sunday afternoon, OPP officers and Selwyn Township firefighters were using boats to search the lake as the helicopter circled overhead.
The OPP Marine Unit, OPP Aviation Services and Underwater Search and Recovery Unit were involved in the search.
The identity of the man who died will not be released until the next of kin are notified, police stated.
The cause remains under investigation.
Curve Lake Chief Emily Whetung told Peterborough This Week’s Angela Lavallee that the community is here to help in any way they can.
“Right now we need to let the officers do their investigation and above all, respect for those involved and their families,” Whetung said.
“We have a wonderful community and we have alerted that we have all available resources in assisting in any way we can.”
Deadly crash
Another fatal incident happened Friday on a highway just north of Peterborough County.
A man from Haliburton has died after a single-vehicle crash on Glamorgan Road, north of Catchacoma, Haliburton Highlands OPP reported.
It happened at about 7:50 p.m. Friday. The driver, Jeffrey Teatro, 44, was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Glamorgan Road, which connects Haliburton to Gooderham, was closed for several hours but reopened by Saturday.