Two people were killed Saturday in a plane crash off of Cudahy in Lake Michigan, according to various reports. Check out coverage from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WISN, TMJ4 and Fox 6.
And here is information from the South Milwaukee Fire Department on their response to the incident …
At approximately 5:25 this evening, the SMFD Rescue Boat, “Guardian II”, was requested by the US Coast Guard to assist in performing surface searches at the site of the reported plane crash in Lake Michigan off the shoreline of Cudahy. The Guardian II responded and conducted surface searches for approximately 1-1½ hours. After being released from that operation, the Milwaukee Fire Department, who was conducting underwater search and recovery operations, requested the use of the side and bottom scan sonar on the Guardian II to further search the crash site and debris field. The SMFD rescue boat worked side-by-side with the Milwaukee Fire Boat “Trident” until approximately 8:50PM when operations were terminated due to darkness and the crash scene was turned over to the US Coast Guard.
The US Coast Guard and Milwaukee Fire Department will be returning to the site tomorrow for further operations and may be requesting our assistance again.
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