AP: Two McCook city employees have been found dead inside a wastewater treatment plant.
The Kearney Hub reports that the bodies of 65-year-old Larry Dicke and 43-year-old Kenneth Keslin were found Sunday afternoon inside a sludge pump house at the McCook plant. Police said in a news release that officers were sent to the plant for a welfare check after one of the employees failed to return home from work. Officers spotted an employees’ personal items outside of the pump house, prompting a search inside and the discovery of the bodies.
Police have not said how the men died, but noted a hazardous materials team was sent in to retrieve the bodies because of toxic gases inside.