Victim of fatal drowning accident recovered after weekend-long search | News

Rescue workers recovered the victim of a fatal drowning accident on Sunday after a search that lasted all weekend.

According to Keith Price, deputy chief of the Somerset-Pulaski County EMS, the victim was 72-year-old Darrell Kirby of Liberty Township, Ohio.

Price said Kirby was pronounced dead at 5:35 p.m. Sunday, shortly after his body was discovered near the area where he disappeared Friday.

On Friday, after 4 p.m., emergency personnel were called to a possible drowning accident in the Party Cove area of ​​Lake Cumberland.

“A man jumped off a pontoon and never resurfaced,” Doug Baker, head of the Somerset-Pulaski County Special Response Team, told the Commonwealth Journal on Saturday.

Various agencies searched late into Friday night and resumed the search Saturday morning. Price reported no success Saturday evening. Boats and dive teams were used in the search and attempted to locate the victim using sonar technology.

The South Fork area of ​​the lake was closed over the weekend to prevent possible interference with the search by other lake users.

Price said it was a diving team from Tennessee that found the victim on Sunday.

Other supporting organizations included the Somerset-Pulaski County Special Response Team, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife, and emergency responders from the City of Burnside.

Price said the victim’s body was taken to Frankfort for examination.