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Volunteer firefighter drowns in Torch Lake
Posted: 07.19.2011 at 5:58 PM
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TORCH LAKE, MI -- Authorities have identified a man who drowned over the weekend as a volunteer firefighter.

21 year-old Loren Hazen from Kalkaska County died while trying to help a friend who was struggling as they were swimming out to a sandbar on Torch Lake.

His friend was able to make it to shallow water.

Hazen was a volunteer for the Boardman Township Fire Department.

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