Crime & Safety
Search Ends For Possible Missing Swimmer in Fairfield
Authorities believe that no one was actually missing despite initial reports that a boy may have been lost in the water.
Fairfield police called off a search for a possible missing swimmer at Lake Mohegan on Friday evening.
Police Chief Gary MacNamara said on Twitter, at about 6:30 p.m., that officials were “clearing the scene at Lake Mohegan as a search did not indicate anyone in the water and no reports of anyone missing.”
MacNamara earlier said that a “search of the lake on the surface and with divers have yet to locate anyone. There is no indication that anyone is missing.”
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Fairfield police and fire crews responded to the lake around 3 p.m. on the report of a possible missing swimmer.
Officials told the Fairfield Citizen that someone approached a lifeguard, saying they had lost sight of a boy around the age of 11 or 12 after he swam past the safety ropes but nobody ever reported anyone missing.
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