A Georgia firefighter was killed over the weekend in a "tragic boating accident" while out on a lake with family and friends, officials said. Chandler Patterson, 27, a Gainesville Fire Department firefighter and EMT, was on a tube being pulled by a bass boat Saturday while on Lake Tugalo on the Georgia-South Carolina border when he fell off, The Gainesville Times reported. "The operator of the boat turned around to pick him up and possibly ran over him in the water," Georgia Department of Natural Resources spokesman Mark McKinnon told the newspaper. Patterson was not wearing a life jacket at the time of the accident, the newspaper said. In a Facebook post, the department described him as a "super friendly person" with a "laid back and caring demeanor."

Source: Fox News June 28, 2021 23:15 UTC