Missing Bodies Found in Johnson's Pond

The bodies of the two men missing since falling into Johnson's Pond have been recovered. More information to follow.

Although the Salisbury Fire Department worked diligently last night trying to recover the bodies of two men that fell into Johnson Pond, visibility was zero once it became dark so they had to call off their search.

This morning they returned with the Dive Team and it only took a couple of hours for them to find and recover the two men that had disappeared. I spoke with the Cousin who was there last night when the two men fell in and he said his back was turned to them when his Cousin and the other man fell in.

One man actually fell in and the other went to help him. The two then disappeared. He said he saw one body floating over to the area in which they did recover both bodies. A third man went in to help but found himself in a difficult way so the 4th man threw out his fishing line and actually reeled him back to safety.

It's a sad day to lose two grown men in a drowning accident as simple as this. My hope is that the City will find a way to stop anyone from fishing in that area as there is quite a bit of people who fish that dam and stand on top of it the whole time. It needs to be off limits.

Public Works was over at the Yard clearing out trees, (I don't exactly understand why) from their property onto the Pond. These were beautiful mature trees and now they're gone. I'm sure it was for recovery purposes but that, (to me) was an unnecessary extreme.

My hat is tipped to the Salisbury Fire Department as nothing was going to stop them from recovering these two bodies. When the water is that dark, it is extremely difficult to do what they just did. My Wife did that for years with the Salisbury Dive Team and there's a ton of training that goes on in such dark waters to make such an attempt a success.

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