BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS — The St. Louis County Rescue Squad is searching for two missing canoeists Sunday after two canoes went over Curtain Falls on Saturday evening.
The water emergency began around 7:21 p.m., according to a St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office report. Two canoes containing four people went over the falls, leaving one injured, one uninjured and two missing.
Two of the party were extracted from near Iron Lake around 12:30 a.m. Sunday. The injured person was flown to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Search efforts for the two missing individuals resumed Sunday, led by the St. Louis County Rescue Squad with assistance from the Virginia Fire Department, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and North Air Care.
The U.S. Forest Service on Sunday evening closed all trails, campsites, portages, rivers and lakes “including but not limited to Iron Lake, including the LaCroix-Bottle portage and LaCroix-Iron portage, and Crooked Lake west of Sunday Bay.” The closure was set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday through 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
This is the second incident to take place in the BWCAW this month. Canoeists on May 10 found the body of Mark Ham, 62, of Duluth, near a capsized canoe on Lake Ages.
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