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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Erin Keller

Horrified students watch as high-angle rescue instructor plummets to death in front of them, cops say

Advanced EMT instructor Fred Kemp died during a waterfall rescue training exercise Wednesday in the mountains of northeast Tennessee - (Washington County ~ Johnson City EMS Honor Guard)

A high-angle rescue training session ended in tragedy this week when a longtime instructor fell to his death in front of students near a mountain waterfall in northeast Tennessee.

Advanced EMT instructor Fred Kemp, a 28-year veteran of the Washington County/Johnson City EMS, was leading a high-angle technical rescue course Wednesday when he fell from a significant height in the Blue Hole Falls area of Carter County, officials said Thursday in a news release.

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