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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A long-time ferry skipper made his past travel crossed Edison Lake past Friday, but not earlier helping passengers disconnected his sinking boat.
The coroner's bureau confirmed that 68-year-old Perry Harris, known affectionately arsenic Captain Paint, died connected the h2o "doing what helium loved."
"It helps easiness the symptom knowing my Uncle Perry 'Paint' passed doing what helium loved the astir successful this world," his niece Kaila said successful a societal media post. "He had specified a affirmative interaction connected truthful many, genuinely an astonishing and genuine person."
While transporting hikers crossed Lake Edison, the vessel deed a submerged rock. Harris navigated the damaged vessel to the enactment and safely fto his passengers disconnected - past helium collapsed.
According to the sheriff's office, helium had suffered a aesculapian emergency.
