ALEXANDER, Maine — Members of the Maine Warden Service and other first responders were busy Friday, heading up a search for a missing boater who went into Pleasant Lake in rural Washington County just after 1 a.m.
Maine Game Wardens Jim Martin and Brad Richard, members of Alexander Fire and Rescue and local citizens began searching at 3:38 a.m. for Cody Hummer of Barrington, N.H., who was reported missing by his canoeing companion, Kyle Perkins, 26, of Glenburn.
Perkins reported that he and Hummer went into the water between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. Perkins tried swimming with the overturned canoe, but Hummer left the canoe and swam toward the southern shoreline near a Pleasant Lake campground.
According to the Warden Service, a door-to-door check of camps along South Shore Road was conducted by Alexander first responders, who located Hummer in an unoccupied camp, where he was able to warm up. He did not require medical treatment.
The Warden Service noted that life jackets were not being worn and that alcohol was a likely contributing factor in the incident.
I guess it wasn’t their time. Maybe a warning from greater powers. Only time will tell if they understood the warning. Hopefully so.
So happy for this outcome. It could easily have gone the other way. I hope that not only these two men learn something from this, but others do as well.
yea,stay away from alcohol,burn a little weed instead.
Funny but as soon as they said it occurred between 1 and 1:30 a.m. I kind of suspected that alcohol might have been involved. That’s a really dangerous mix. I’m glad it turned out the way it did though.
Good outcome.
Thankfully Pleasant lake is rather small, if they had overturned in the middle of Big Lake or West Grand…the outcome could have been completely different.
Glad it turned out alright, hope they learned a lesson from this.
A friend of mine drowned in Pushaw Lake several years ago when he and a friend decided it was a good idea to go out in a canoe late at night with no life jackets. The canoe tipped over. Their screams for help could be heard by lakeside camp owners, but because it was so dark, they could not be located before they drowned. They were both in their late 20s. So sad.
They should be made responsible for paying back the search efforts and the people involved with it.
A first responder found Hummer in an abandoned camp. Do these search teams need help?