PRINCEVILLE, N.C. — The volunteer firefighter who went missing in North Carolina while fishing with friends has been identified as 20-year-old Anthony Tyler Brunett.
ABC11.com reported firefighter Brunett is presumed drowned after he and the three friends he had been fishing with decided to go swimming. Brunett went underwater and never resurfaced.
Deputies were called to the Tar River on Sunday around 4 p.m. Since then, crews have been attempting to find Brunett using divers, sonar and underwater cameras.