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Report ID# 773

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Accident Description

On May 12, 2002, two rafters lost their lives at the Daniels Park Dam in Willoughby, OH. Charlie Trizza, 19, and Chad Schreibman, 18, ran the dam in a raft and drowned. This is the same place where Mark Palmisalmo had drowned in April, 1998. The families filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city fo Willoughby and the state of Ohio in 2004.

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