Monday, July 13, 2009

Missing Man found

The search for a missing man in northwestern Ontario is over.

Emergency response teams have found a man who was picked up by atornado that swept through a hunting and fishing resort in Ear Fallson Thursday.

Dennis Kinkaid of Ponca City, Oklahoma, was with two friends atthe Fisherman's Cove Resort in Ear Falls when the cabin the men werein was ripped from its foundation.

The cabin was tossed into the lake almost a kilometre away.

The bodies of Bernie Jackson and Stan Hollis, also from PoncaCity, were pulled from the water Friday.

Meanwhile, Environment Canada has classified last week's storm that lifted 2-cabins into a lake as an F-2 tornado.

Meteorologist Geoff Coulson says wind speeds reached upwards of 240 kilometres an hour during Thursday's tornado at Fisherman's Cove Resort.