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Colorado man rescued after kayak capsizes near Grand Marais

By FOX 9 Staff

Published October 19, 2020 1:35pm CDT

Minnesota

FOX 9

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (FOX 9) - A Colorado man was rescued after his kayak capsized on a lake near Grand Marais, Minnesota Sunday.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to Devil Track Lake on a report of a capsized boat and a person in the water. Deputies and members of the Cook County Search and Rescue unit got the man, who was not wearing a lifejacket, out of the water. He was taken to a nearby hospital.

The victim said a boat had escaped him on the lake so he got into a kayak to try to retrieve it, but the kayak capsized due to wind and waves on the lake.