For his service on December 19, 1999
In a rescue reminiscent of many of the Armistice Day rescues,
Warden Weber was summoned from home on his day off by a
citizen reporting an overturned boat of duck hunters on
the Mississippi River. Weber was able to locate the boat
and rescue two men who had been struggling to hang onto
the overturned boat. After helping the two hunters into
his boat he searched for a boy who was hunting with the
men. The boy was recovered 2 ½ hours later and pronounced
dead at a MN hospital. Although the death of the young hunter
was a tragedy, the situation could have easily been a triple
fatality.
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