Two men drowned at Ruedi Reservoir on Saturday afternoon, according to an official with the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
One of the men was in his 40s, said Michael Buglione, a patrol supervisor with the agency. Communication with law enforcement on the scene was difficult Saturday afternoon because of the lack of cellphone service in the Fryingpan Valley.
Emergency dispatchers first received a call about the drownings at 1:15 p.m. Saturday, said Alex Burchetta, Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office patrol director who was on-scene for four hours at the reservoir Saturday afternoon.
What little information that was available Saturday evening indicates that a man yet to be identified was swimming alone near his boat in the lake and struggling, Burchetta said. Another man from the Basalt area on a second boat passing by jumped in to help the first man and both went under the water and were not seen again, he said.
A Sheriff’s Office investigator Saturday evening was interviewing a woman who was on the second boat, Burchetta said.
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