MONROE COUNTY, Fla. — Intense body camera video from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office shows the race to save eight people from a sinking boat.
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Deputies say it slammed into a bridge early Monday morning.
“We’ve got one more on the backside. One more on the backside,” one first responder can be heard saying. The boat’s going down.”
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Deputies say six adults and two kids were on that boat.
Crews dropped a ladder from the bridge above to grab them one by one.
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Many of them were hospitalized.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is now investigating whether speed or alcohol played a role in the crash.
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