Krause said three children under the age of 11 died after their boat capsized during a sudden storm Friday. Hundreds of people gathered to pay remembrance Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Fourth of July festivities in Lake Geneva a day after three children died in boat accident. <\/p>\n
“People’s hearts are breaking for that family,” said Camille Johnson, a mom.<\/p>\n
“Very sad and heartbreaking, and you know, prayers and everything for the family,” said Jackie Kuehl.<\/p>\n
SIGN UP TODAY: Get daily headlines, breaking news emails from FOX6 News<\/a><\/p>\n It’s a loss the city is still processing after a severe storm struck the area ahead of this festive weekend.<\/p>\n “When we got the news about the children that had died, our whole team burst out into tears,” said Stephanie Klett, CEO of Visit Lake Geneva. “It is a little bit painful because of those children, and it just really is a reminder how precious life is.”<\/p>\n Despite the tragedy, folks still came out to enjoy the country’s 250th birthday. But also to honor those lost past and present.<\/p>\n “God bless America,” said Kuehl.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n At this time, the identities of the children have not been released. The Walworth County Sheriff’s Office said the deaths are being investigated.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report was gathered from the mayor of Lake Geneva, Camille Johnson, Jackie Kuehl, Stephanie Klett and the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n Lake Geneva<\/a>News<\/a>Holidays<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE GENEVA, Wis. – Fourth of July festivities were in full force as folks enjoyed the outdoors and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,10909,2117,1202,714,11787,10236],"class_list":["post-97509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-geneva","tag-holidays","tag-lake-geneva","tag-news","tag-us","tag-walworth-county","tag-wi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116865002824444334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}