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Re: Boy Scouts electrocuted in deadly Texas boating accident

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"Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoetoro@bho-rejected.com> writes:

>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/boy-scouts-electrocuted-avinger-texas-boating-
>accident/

>AVINGER, Texas -- Authorities say two Texas Boy Scouts were killed and 
>another was critically hurt when their sailboat hit an overhead power line 
>and apparently electrocuted the youths. 

>The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department says the accident happened Saturday 
>afternoon at Lake O' The Pines near Avinger, 150 miles east of Dallas.

>Agency spokesman Steve Lightfoot said the Boy Scouts, ages 18 and 16, died 
>at the scene. Their names weren't immediately released.  

>CBS affiliate KYTX-TV reports 11-year-old Thomas Larry was critically 
>injured and was hospitalized in Shreveport, Louisiana.

>All were from Troop 620 in Hallsville and wore personal flotation devices. 
>Lightfoot says the catamaran was on fire, with sails up, when game wardens 
>arrived.

>Lightfoot says the preliminary investigation indicates the sailboat came 
>in contact with the power line. 

>Boy Scout members, teachers and friends shared stories about the boys 
>killed in the accident and sang "Amazing Grace" during a candlelight 
>vigil, according to KYTX-TV. 

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There was an incident like that when I was a kid on a lake where we had a
cabin. The lake level was high and a sail boat lost control and drifted or
was blown where power distribution lines passed near the shore line (over
the water at the time), its mast struck the overhead distribution line and
two people were killed.  The newspaper story reported the distribution
line voltage was 4800 volts.  That power line and another one that passed
over a channel were moved shortly thereafter.

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Boy Scouts electrocuted in deadly Texas boating accident "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoetoro@bho-rejected.com> - 2017-08-07 20:57 +0000
  Re: Boy Scouts electrocuted in deadly Texas boating accident moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2017-08-08 23:07 +0000
  Re: Boy Scouts electrocuted in deadly Texas boating accident Tzortzakakis Dimitrios <noone@nospam.com> - 2017-08-11 16:41 +0300

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