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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three places you can't
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  Speaker 1: into today's stories. At ten thirty am on October thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, a thirty three year old pastor
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  Speaker 1: named Kyle Lake stood on a stage inside of the
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  Speaker 1: University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. Kyle had just finished
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  Speaker 1: delivering that morning sermon to his congregation, which included about
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred people, and now he was about to welcome
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  Speaker 1: a new member, a young woman. So Kyle had been
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  Speaker 1: the pastor of this church for the last seven years,
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  Speaker 1: and over that time the church had really grown and evolved,
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  Speaker 1: really directly because of Kyle's leadership. He was known as
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  Speaker 1: being a very thoughtful and educated pastor who was also
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  Speaker 1: known to be quite fun and progressive. He often would
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  Speaker 1: play pranks on the congregation and keep things really light
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  Speaker 1: even if he was in the middle of a very
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  Speaker 1: important sermon, and people like that.
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  Speaker 2: It made him relatable.
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  Speaker 1: And so because of Kyle's youthful energy that he clearly
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  Speaker 1: gave off, he had sort of gradually shifted the congregation
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  Speaker 1: to being a much more young crowd. Predominantly the folks
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  Speaker 1: who attended the church were college kids or roughly that age.
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  Speaker 1: And also his wife was an attendee at the church,
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  Speaker 1: as were his three little kids, who at the moment
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  Speaker 1: as he was up on stage, they were across the
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  Speaker 1: hall attending kids Bible study. Now, for Kyle, welcoming a
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  Speaker 1: new member into this church had become a very big
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  Speaker 1: deal for him. He in fact, had this special ceremony
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  Speaker 1: he would perform for each and every new member, and
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  Speaker 1: really the whole congregation got behind this ceremony. And so
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  Speaker 1: today Kyle was about to do this ceremony with this
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  Speaker 1: new member, this young woman, and so Kyle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in front of the whole congregation, he calls this woman
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  Speaker 1: up you know, come on up, we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: the ceremony to welcome you to the church. And so
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  Speaker 1: the woman she gets up, and she walks up to
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  Speaker 1: the front of the stage and she smiles, and Kyle
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  Speaker 1: says hello to her and sort of introduces himself, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole church is listening. And then Kyle, as part
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  Speaker 1: of this ritual, moved to the very center of the
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  Speaker 1: stage where the actual ceremony was going to take place,
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  Speaker 1: and he was about to call the woman up to
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  Speaker 1: join him in the center of the stage when there
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  Speaker 1: was a malfunction. Now, the malfunction itself was not really
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  Speaker 1: a huge deal. All it did was just stop Kyle
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  Speaker 1: for a second and he had to stop talking to
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  Speaker 1: the new member, and he had to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: he was going to do. But quickly he saw a
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  Speaker 1: fix that didn't even require.
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  Speaker 2: Him to leave the stage.
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  Speaker 1: However, the instant he actually made the fix when he
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  Speaker 1: fixed the malfunction, as he was about to start talking
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  Speaker 1: to the whole audience again, he just began to scream. Now,
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  Speaker 1: at first, nobody took the seriously because their pastor was
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  Speaker 1: known for playing pranks on the congregation, and so everybody
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  Speaker 1: just thought it was a prank, albeit a strange one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's screaming at the top of his lungs,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone's sort of looking around like this is a prank, right,
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  Speaker 1: But then Kyle's screams began to include words. He began screaming, help,
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  Speaker 1: help me, And at that point it sort of clicked
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  Speaker 1: for the whole congregation that this was not a joke.
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  Speaker 2: Something was terribly wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Even though they're looking up at him and nothing appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be wrong, nothing made sense, and so immediately it
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  Speaker 1: was like the church spiraled into chaos and confusion. People
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  Speaker 1: are bowing their heads, praying as fiercely as they could,
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  Speaker 1: praying for a safety. Others are sprinting out of the church,
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  Speaker 1: not even knowing what to do. And still more, we're
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  Speaker 1: calling nine to one one, like several people calling nine
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  Speaker 1: one one, And then by the time the paramedics showed up,
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  Speaker 1: it was like people still had no idea what actually
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  Speaker 1: was happening. In fact, honestly, the paramedics didn't. He was like,
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  Speaker 1: what is this But within a few days they were
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  Speaker 1: able to figure out what happened and it surprised everyone.
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  Speaker 1: So the special ceremony that Kyle would perform for every
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  Speaker 1: new member was a baptism and so when Kyle moved
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  Speaker 1: to the very center of the stage and he actually
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  Speaker 1: called up the woman to join him in the center
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  Speaker 1: of the stage, he actually was stepping into the baptismal pool.
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  Speaker 1: Picture like a hot tub, waste high water, it's warm water,
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  Speaker 1: and so Kyle literally stepped into the hot tub and
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  Speaker 1: he's calling up this woman to join him in the
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  Speaker 1: pool so she can be baptized. However, before this woman
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  Speaker 1: actually got to the pool, Kyle has this malfunction and
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  Speaker 1: all it was is his lapel mic shut off. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't working anymore. And because the church he was in
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  Speaker 1: was huge and cavernous, sound really didn't travel well. He
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  Speaker 1: needed a microphone to project his voice, and so he
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  Speaker 1: had to stop the ceremony for a second and find
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  Speaker 1: another microphone. Luckily, there was a stand with a microphone
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  Speaker 1: in it right within arm's reach, and so Kyle grabbed it. However,
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  Speaker 1: what Kyle didn't know was there actually was a second
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  Speaker 1: malfunction that had happened, either at this instant or just before.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, there was another malfunction that he had
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  Speaker 1: no idea about, and that was that the heaters of
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  Speaker 1: the baptismal pool that kept the water warm were damaged,
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  Speaker 1: and as a result of this damage, the water in
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  Speaker 1: that pool had become electrically charged, and so the instant
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  Speaker 1: Kyle grabbed that microphone, he grounded the electricity in the pool. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: he created a pathway for the electricity to travel through
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  Speaker 1: his body. When he began to scream, that was him
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  Speaker 1: being electrocuted. Despite the efforts of first responders and the
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  Speaker 1: medical staff at the hospital, Kyle unfortunately did not survive.
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  Speaker 1: As for Kyle's wife, who literally watched this happen from
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  Speaker 1: the front row of the church, she watched her husband
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  Speaker 1: be killed. She ultimately sued the electrical company that installed
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  Speaker 1: those heaters in the baptismal pool, and she would settle
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  Speaker 1: Around five PM on Sunday, August fifteenth, nineteen seventy one,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty three year old man named Michael was sitting
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  Speaker 1: inside of his living room in rural Ontario, Canada. Michael
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  Speaker 1: was flipping through a photo album that showed pictures of
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  Speaker 1: him scuba diving and mountain biking and doing all these
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  Speaker 1: really high adrenaline activities because Michael really lived for adventure.
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  Speaker 1: And so as he's flipping through this album, here's a
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  Speaker 1: knock on the door, So.
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  Speaker 2: He stops what he's doing. He goes to the door.
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  Speaker 1: He opens up up and there's this police officer who's
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  Speaker 1: totally frantic and is speaking a mile a minute and
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  Speaker 1: he tells Michael, hey, so we had this guy who
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  Speaker 1: was swimming in a lake nearby and he went missing.
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  Speaker 1: He's been gone for over an hour. Now we don't
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  Speaker 1: know where he is. And we were asking around, you know,
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  Speaker 1: does anybody have any scuba diving equipment or experience because
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  Speaker 1: we need to get in there and look for this
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  Speaker 1: guy in the lake.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody said, you're the guy.
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  Speaker 1: You have scuba equipment, and maybe you might be able
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  Speaker 1: to lend it to us so that, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: police could go in there and look for this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Michael was kind of caught off guard by all this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this was not a typical occurrence to have
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  Speaker 1: police show up and have this type of request, but
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  Speaker 1: Michael immediately felt this sense of responsibility. He did note
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  Speaker 1: that he was sort of the top dog in scuba
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  Speaker 1: diving in rural Ontario, Canada, and he's hearing this police
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  Speaker 1: officer say what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: But he's thinking, even if I give.
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  Speaker 1: You my equipment, you can't just put the stuff on
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  Speaker 1: and safely conduct dives. You need the training as much
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  Speaker 1: as you need the equipment. And so Michael just kind
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  Speaker 1: of instinctively said, hey, look, look, I'm not just going
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  Speaker 1: to give you the equipment because I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: setting you up for failure. Here, what if I come
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  Speaker 1: with you. I'll put the equipment on and I'll go
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  Speaker 1: look for the sky. I know what i'm doing, I
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  Speaker 1: know how to use the equipment. It'll be way safer
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient. And the cop said, thank you so much, that.
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  Speaker 2: Would be great.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, and so Kyle he went and got a
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  Speaker 1: scuba equipment and before long he had thrown it in
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  Speaker 1: the police cruiser and the two of them were flying
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  Speaker 1: towards the lake. About thirty minutes later, Michael and the
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  Speaker 1: police officer pull into this parking lot this wooded lot
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  Speaker 1: with trees everywhere, and straight ahead of them through the
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  Speaker 1: trees they can see down below is this big lake,
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  Speaker 1: and then to the left of the lake is a
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  Speaker 1: big dam, and then beyond that, over to the left
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  Speaker 1: side of that is a river. And so where the
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  Speaker 1: swimmer had gone missing was in the lake portion. And
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  Speaker 1: so Michael quickly hopped out of the car, he grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a scuba gear, and then he and the officer took
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  Speaker 1: off running through the trees down to the lake. And
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  Speaker 1: when they got down there, Michael scanned the area and
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  Speaker 1: he saw there were all these police officers and park employees.
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  Speaker 2: There were other people who clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Had just come to the lake that day, like tourists,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's kind of scanning the lake. No one's really
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  Speaker 1: in the water, but everyone's sort of walking around the perimeters,
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  Speaker 1: like hoping they.
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  Speaker 2: Can just see this missing swimmer somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: And also Michael noticed clearly the family of this missing
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  Speaker 1: man was, you know, off to the side, and many
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  Speaker 1: of them were crying. But it definitely seemed like no
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  Speaker 1: serious search effort had really happened yet. It's like everybody
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  Speaker 1: was just kind of waiting for something to happen. And
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  Speaker 1: so when Michael shows up with all his scuba gear,
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  Speaker 1: it was like everybody looked at him as like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, thank you, like get in there, find him,
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  Speaker 1: Like I bet he's okay, Like get out there. And Michael,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's thinking to himself that he hadn't done
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  Speaker 1: a search like this before, but the fact somebody was
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  Speaker 1: missing for that long already did not bode well.
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  Speaker 2: But he thought, you know what, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it my best shot, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: we find this guy still alive. And so Michael put
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  Speaker 1: on all his equipment right on the shore side, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's waiting, kind of watching, anxious about what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen next. And once he had donned his equipment, Michael
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  Speaker 1: stood up and just began scanning the lake, looking for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, any sign of where to begin the search,
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  Speaker 1: because it's just one man and this.
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  Speaker 2: Huge body of water. He needs sort of a starting point.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's quiet, everyone's just kind of watching Michael
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  Speaker 1: as Michael's looking around the lake. And then at some
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  Speaker 1: point he looked out and he saw there was this
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  Speaker 1: little ripple sort of right in the middle of the lake.
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  Speaker 1: Now the surface of the lake had basically been glass
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  Speaker 1: like because nobody was really in the water save for
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  Speaker 1: like the very perimeter of the lake, and so the
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  Speaker 1: water was very calm.
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  Speaker 2: But he sees there's this little ripple sort of right.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle, and so Michael points out the ripple
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  Speaker 1: to the other officer he was with and sort of
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  Speaker 1: anybody who could listen, and he said, Okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go in there and start searching right there. And
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  Speaker 1: so Michael goes into the water, kind of wades in
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  Speaker 1: till about his waist and then he kind of looked
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  Speaker 1: around one more time, put on his mask, and went
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  Speaker 1: under the water. About fifteen minutes later, the police officer
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  Speaker 1: who had originally gone and gotten Michael and driven.
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  Speaker 2: With him to the lake.
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  Speaker 1: He was still just standing on the lake shore along
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  Speaker 1: with the missing swimmers family and other searchers and pretty
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  Speaker 1: much everybody was just kind of waiting for Michael to
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  Speaker 1: give some sort of report about how the search was going. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Michael easily had enough air in his tanks to be
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  Speaker 1: out there for quite some time to do a pretty
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  Speaker 1: they're a search and they're only fifteen minutes in, so
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  Speaker 1: they don't.
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  Speaker 2: Really know if this is too early to expect feedback
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  Speaker 2: from Michael. But it's just tense.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's just waiting, you know, waiting to see what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. But at some point, as this officer is
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  Speaker 1: just standing there, one of the volunteer searchers comes bombing
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  Speaker 1: along the shore from up near the dam. They ran
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  Speaker 1: right down to this officer and said, hey, you got
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  Speaker 1: to come with me. We found something over there in
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  Speaker 1: the river. And so, you know, at this point, the
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  Speaker 1: police officer is thinking, I bet they found the missing swimmer.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're probably not in this lake.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they found them over in the river. And he's
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  Speaker 1: thinking the worst, right, so he runs with the searcher.
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  Speaker 2: He goes to the dam.
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  Speaker 1: He goes to the river side on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the dam, and there's this crowd of searchers and
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  Speaker 1: police that are all along the shore of the river.
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  Speaker 1: And so this police officer he pushes through the crowd, expecting,
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  Speaker 1: frankly at this point to see a dead body, to
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  Speaker 1: see the missing swimmer. But when he parts the crowd
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  Speaker 1: and sees what they're all looking at, he realizes there
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  Speaker 1: has been a terrible mistake. So two hours earlier, when
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  Speaker 1: this missing swimmer. First went me, This is like before
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  Speaker 1: Michael was ever contacted, you know, before he was out
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  Speaker 1: there searching for him. This is like the initial wave
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  Speaker 1: of panic that we have a person who is missing
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in this water well. A park employee had been
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  Speaker 1: really motivated to try to help with the search, and
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  Speaker 1: so without really telling anybody, they ran into the control
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  Speaker 1: room of the dam and in there they turned a
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  Speaker 1: valve and this particular valve opened up a pipe that
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  Speaker 1: spanned from the lake back through to the river. And
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  Speaker 1: when this valve was turned and the pipe was opened up,
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  Speaker 1: water from the lake would go back into the river,
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  Speaker 1: basically draining the lake.
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  Speaker 2: This employee was thinking, if I.
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  Speaker 1: Drain the lake, it'll make it easier to search the
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  Speaker 1: lake where we believe this man has gone missing, Like
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  Speaker 1: this will make it easier to search the lake.
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  Speaker 2: And so this pipe has.
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  Speaker 1: Been opened up, this two foot in diameter, thirty foot
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  Speaker 1: long pipe connecting river and lake, and it's sucking water
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  Speaker 1: like mad from the lake into that river. Nobody had
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  Speaker 1: really gone into the lake to look for this missing swimmer,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not. So the lake really hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: touched as soon as this valve was turned. So the
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  Speaker 1: first person who went into the lake once that was
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  Speaker 1: opened up was Michael with a scuba gearon. And when
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  Speaker 1: he went into the water and actually flagged the ripple
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  Speaker 1: on the surface of the water.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't realize this, but.
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  Speaker 1: That ripple represented this deadly undercurrent of all the water
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  Speaker 1: being sucked into this pipe, and so as soon as
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  Speaker 1: he went out and went under the water, the current
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  Speaker 1: pulled him so quickly and so hard that he couldn't resurface.
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  Speaker 1: All his equipment got yanked off his body and he
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  Speaker 1: was thrust into this pipe, and in the pipe, he
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  Speaker 1: got stuck and he drowned inside of the pipe before
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  Speaker 1: eventually being forced out the other end, where his body
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  Speaker 1: spilled out onto the shore of the river. That's what
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  Speaker 1: everybody was crowded around once they got up to the
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  Speaker 1: riverside Michael's dead body. Four hours after Michael's body was found,
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  Speaker 1: they would find the missing swimmer. His body was located
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty yards away from where Michael
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  Speaker 1: had first entered the lake. His body was found on
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  Speaker 1: the shore of the lake, and so Michael had sort
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  Speaker 1: of been close, but unfortunately that current had pulled him
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  Speaker 1: under and killed him. Today, the lake has been permanently
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  Speaker 1: drained in part because of this tragedy. At five am
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  Speaker 1: on June twenty eighth, nineteen eighty eight, a twenty five
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  Speaker 1: year old man named Jeffrey Link stood in the supply
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  Speaker 1: room of a small factory in Auburn, Indiana. He reached
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  Speaker 1: up and he grabbed a container on the shelf, and
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  Speaker 1: then with it in hand, he turned left the supply
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  Speaker 1: room and walked out into the main factory area. So
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  Speaker 1: the factory where Jeffrey worked was called Bastion Plating Company,
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  Speaker 1: and what they did is they made chrome plated parts
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  Speaker 1: for cars.
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  Speaker 2: And Jeffrey's specific.
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  Speaker 1: Job was being a machine operator, which meant he basically
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  Speaker 1: kept a bunch of these machines running and periodically had
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  Speaker 1: to do maintenance on them. And in fact today he
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  Speaker 1: was doing that. He was doing maintenance.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: In general, this job that Jeffrey did was actually pretty dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: The machines they worked on were big industrial machines that
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  Speaker 1: often got really, really hot. In fact, it was not
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  Speaker 1: uncommon for Jeffrey and his colleagues to come home with
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  Speaker 1: burns on their body just from you know, touching these
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  Speaker 1: different machines.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just part of the job, and Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: didn't mind it.
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  Speaker 1: The pay was pretty good, and overall, the thing he
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  Speaker 1: liked the most about his job was just the camaraderie
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  Speaker 1: the other people that worked there. There was about maybe
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  Speaker 1: three dozen employees who worked at this factory, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like a tight knit family, and so it was
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  Speaker 1: like they struggled together.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The job was kind of gritty and difficult,
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  Speaker 2: but it felt worth it.
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  Speaker 1: So on this particular day, Jeffrey walked along this walkway
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  Speaker 1: in the main factory area and as he passed by
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  Speaker 1: his colleagues, he said, hello, you know again, everybody's friends here.
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  Speaker 1: And eventually Jeffrey reached the machine that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be performing maintenance on.
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  Speaker 2: And this machine was huge, and the only.
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  Speaker 1: Way for him to actually perform maintenance was to get
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  Speaker 1: inside of the machine. But you know, to Jeffrey and
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  Speaker 1: to his colleagues, this type of thing was completely routine.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So as soon as he got to the machine, Jeffrey,
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  Speaker 1: with this container he had gotten from the supply room,
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  Speaker 1: stepped inside. A few seconds later, one of Jeffrey's colleagues,
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  Speaker 1: who was standing on that same walkway Jeffrey had walked
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  Speaker 1: across to get to the machine he was working on.
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  Speaker 1: This guy hears a loud thud sound coming from over here,
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  Speaker 1: over where Jeffrey is, and he turns and he looks
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  Speaker 1: into the opening of this machine where Jeffrey had gone,
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  Speaker 1: and he sees what appears to be Jeffrey just lying
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  Speaker 1: on the ground inside.
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  Speaker 2: Of this machine.
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  Speaker 1: And this co worker is just not really understanding what
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  Speaker 1: he's seeing. He knows he just sort of thud sound,
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  Speaker 1: and he's sort of putting it together. And as he's watching,
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  Speaker 1: another coworker runs into the machine where Jeffrey is. Clearly
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: they've seen, you know, Jeffrey fall, and so they go
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  Speaker 1: in to try to help him, and the guy on
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  Speaker 1: the walkway's watching, and this second coworker who rushes into
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  Speaker 1: the machine with Jeffrey just suddenly collapses as well, right
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: next to Jeffrey. And then two more colleagues come running over.
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  Speaker 1: They go into the machine and they two collapse. All
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  Speaker 1: four people are just down inside of this machine. And
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  Speaker 1: so the co worker who's out on this walkway can
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  Speaker 1: tell clearly there's something bad over there. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, and so they turn they run out
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  Speaker 1: of the factory and they call nine one one when
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  Speaker 1: they come back inside to see what's happening in here.
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  Speaker 1: Before first responders have arrived here. This is just like
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  Speaker 1: seconds later, this coworker comes back to that walkway and
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  Speaker 1: he sees, now there's like twenty other of his coworkers
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  Speaker 1: that have sort of begun congregating in this area near
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  Speaker 1: this machine, and they're all stumbling around, they're all disoriented,
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  Speaker 1: people are vomiting. It's like all hell had broken loose
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  Speaker 1: inside of this factory and nobody knew why. And then
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  Speaker 1: the first responders become nauseated and disoriented and they're completely
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: down for the count. It's like nobody could be in
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  Speaker 1: this factory without losing their senses and collapsing. It would
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: not be until later when authorities were able to go
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  Speaker 1: into this factory with proper protective equipment on that they
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: could actually examine this machine that Jeffrey had been trying
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  Speaker 1: to do maintenance on. And also they examined the container
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  Speaker 1: that Jeffrey had brought with him into that machine. When
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  Speaker 1: they examined those two things.
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  Speaker 2: They figured out what happened.
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  Speaker 1: So the machine that Jeffrey was performing maintenance on this
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  Speaker 1: big machine was a huge metal tank that had recently
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  Speaker 1: been used to store a chemical called zinc cyanide, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was going to be Jeffrey's job to go
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  Speaker 1: inside of this tank literally.
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  Speaker 2: And clean the inside of it.
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  Speaker 1: And so that container he brought with him from the
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  Speaker 1: supply room was a chemical cleaning solution. However, the factory
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  Speaker 1: had two distinct types of chemical cleaning solutions, and it
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  Speaker 1: was very important which one you used depending on what
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  Speaker 1: you were cleaning. Jeffrey knew that he just accidentally grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the wrong one, and when this wrong chemical cleaning solution
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  Speaker 1: interacted with the residue of the zinc cyanide inside of
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: that tank, it pretty much immediately created a cloud of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas. This gas immediately caused Jeffrey to
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  Speaker 1: pass out, and then each of the subsequent coworkers who
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: rushed into that enclosed space were hit with this gas
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: They two passed out.
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  Speaker 1: And as the gas continued to grow and spread, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: as more people showed up to see what was going on,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the gas began causing other people to pass out and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: get sick. All the way until first responders were there.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: It was like the whole factory was filled with this poison,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and so between the factory employees and all the first responders,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in total, thirty nine people were hospitalized from this poisonous gas,
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  Speaker 1: and of those thirty nine people, five people died, including Jeffrey,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the three people who rushed in immediately to try to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: help him and passed out next.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: To him, as well as one additional coworker.
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