KANSAS CITY (AP) — Crews on Thursday recovered the body of a man who jumped into a Kansas City-area lake to help his children.
Firefighters were called to Longview Lake just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday and were told that two adults had jumped into the water to help the kids who were wearing life jackets but started to drift away from a pontoon boat.
The children were eventually retrieved safely but the man went under the water and didn't resurface. His body was recovered about 2 p.m. Thursday. His name has not been released.