Montreal Firefighter Drowning: Safety Board Highlights ‘Decisions Made on the Fly’

Published on January 31, 2024

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has concluded that a lack of planning contributed to the October 2021 capsizing of a rescue boat that killed a Montreal firefighter. Pierre Lacroix, 58, drowned after the boat flipped while he and three colleagues attempted to pull a pleasure vessel carrying two people from the Lachine Rapids off the southern tip of Montreal Island. A 53-page Transportation Safety Board report published on Jan. 31 details the sequence of events that ended in Mr. Lacroix’s death, as well as the conditions and actions that the board says contributed to the mishap. The report notes that the fire department water and land-based units assigned to the evening rescue did not develop an action plan, or perform a situation-specific risk analysis before proceeding with the operation....

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