The body of a 4-year-old boy was discovered in a Georgia river just five days after his father died.
“We never lost our resolve. These guys never backed up,” said Battalion Chief Bryan Watson said in a 10 a.m. news conference on Friday. “We wouldn’t quit. We gave our word to the family that we would find this kid. ... We gave the family closure.”
Beau Rabon was found Friday morning---just days after his father, James Rabon, was pulled from the Chattahoochee River, Watson confirmed to the Ledger-Enquirer. The two had been fishing along the bank of the river about 750 feet south of the Oliver Dam on March 28.
First, the toddler fell into the swift-moving water before his father went in to rescue him, witnesses told officials.
Neither the boy or his father were wearing a life vest, the officials said.
“This is the longest dive operation I have been on,” Capt. Daniel Hord, a 14-year veteran with the fire department, told the newspaper. “We are here for the family and our hearts go out to them. I think all of us are fathers, brothers. That toll is going to be on anyone. That’s why we do what we do. We are here to serve this city.”
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