Heroic teen dies saving children from turbulent water near NW. Minnesota dam

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How admirable it is what this young lady did.

Heroic teen dies saving children from turbulent water near NW. Minnesota dam​

If not for Raina L. Neeland’s actions, “We probably would have had multiple fatalities,” the sheriff said. “She did her part and saved who she could.”

By Paul Walsh Star Tribune

AUGUST 18, 2020 — 2:28PM

An 18-year-old woman rescued children from treacherous river waters below a dam in northwestern Minnesota only to lose her own life after being pulled under, authorities in Clearwater County said Tuesday.

The heroics of Raina Lynn Neeland, of nearby rural Bagley, occurred Monday afternoon at the Clearwater Dam in Sinclair Township, where water from Clearwater Lake flows over the 14-foot-high dam into a river with the same name, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

That’s where Neeland and about seven children related to her were going over the off-limits dam and into the river but got caught up in the turbulent water and could not free themselves, the Sheriff’s Office said.
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It sounds like these people should not have been playing around this dam. It also sounds like Raina Lynn Neeland was the only one to die in all of this.

Paywall at above story but here is another story on it.

 
sadly I’m suspecting she’s the one who allowed the children to play there in the first place.
 
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