A coroner’s inquest into the 2021 drowning of Montreal firefighter Pierre Lacroix is hearing about the frantic search for him after his boat capsized in the Lachine Rapids during a rescue attempt.
But Lt. Sylvain Dominique of the Montreal fire department testified today that despite an extensive effort from the water, shore and air, rescuers did not look under the capsized HammerHead boat in the initial hours after the accident.
Lacroix and three of his colleagues were trying to save two boaters in distress when the firefighters’ vessel capsized in the waves of the St. Lawrence River on Oct. 17, 2021. The other three firefighters survived….