Excerpts from the nwherald.com:
Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD Firefighter Mark Amore
Forty six year-old Mark Amore, a firefighter with the Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District, died Thursday after a Bobcat flipped upside down and trapped him in the water at Ben Watts Marina in Fox Lake. Amore was a former lieutenant with the McHenry Township Fire Protection District, where his father, Wayne, was the district’s first full-time chief.
The Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Firefighters IAFF Local 4224 wrote on Facebook that there were no words to express what the Amore family and their fire family are going through.
Amore, according to his Facebook page, was a heavy equipment operator at Pirtano Construction Company.
The Fox Lake Fire Protection District was dispatched at 2:20 p.m. Thursday to Ben Watts Marina at 116 South Route 12 for a water rescue where they found a Bobcat upside down in the water, with Amore still inside the cage. Divers from the fire protection district pulled Amore out of the water. He was then taken to Northwestern McHenry Hospital in serious condition, where he succumbed to his injuries.
