Overview

• On June 22, a boat carrying 10 adults and two children lost power and overturned on Cedar Creek Lake in windy, choppy conditions
• Two girls, ages three and five, drowned after becoming trapped beneath the overloaded vessel despite wearing life jackets
• Rescue teams from the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office and Tool Volunteer Fire Department battled darkness and high winds before recovering the girls’ bodies just before midnight
• Texas Parks and Wildlife has opened a formal inquiry into the incident to determine how equipment failure and overloading contributed to the capsizing
• An unrelated drowning earlier that evening brought this year’s total fatalities on Cedar Creek Lake to three