LAFD found the body of Los Angeles Fire Station Connor J. Leeds almost four months after the 29-year-old went missing during a recreational dive.
Long Beach police recovered Leeds ruins off the coast of Long Beach on Friday, the fire department said in a statement Saturday.
“LAFD is united in grief with family, friends and colleagues at Firefighter Leeds,” the department said. “We express deep sadness to all who know and love him.”
Leeds, a six-year veteran of the department assigned to Baldwin Hills Fire Station 94, went missing on December 4th and dived near Pier J in Long Beach.
The non-working firefighters were part of a group of four men in their 20s who went out for free diving that night.
Leeds was one of three divers who jumped into the water while the fourth man was driving the boat, Long Beach Fire Department said at the time. When only two men resurface, the group is called 911.
Rescue divers from Long Beach, LA City, and county fire departments, the US Coast Guard, Long Beach Police and Los Angeles Port Police quickly set out for a search.
Two days later, paramedics announced that the search and rescue operation had become a recovery mission based on water conditions and the unlikely that divers had survived.
“We look to the ocean and we are sure he is where he has always wanted,” a friend and family in Leeds wrote on the GoFundMe page set up after his loss. “He loved the water and everything it brought to our lives. It taught him how he and the ocean remain connected forever, in his time, in his time, in his time, how he and the ocean remain connected forever.”
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