UpdatedThu, Feb 25, 2021 at 4:06 pm ET
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A 16-year-old Ohio girl died as she saved the life of her younger brother at Rocky Fork Lake. (Shutterstock)
HILLSBORO, OH The deaths of a 16-year-old girl who saved her brother s life and a park ranger who tried to save her are the latest painful reminders to stay off the ice during the final weeks of winter.
The girl, later identified as Kearia R. Scott of Hillsboro, Ohio, according to the Times-Gazette newspaper, was with her 13-year-old brother on the ice at Rocky Fork Lake on Tuesday night when the two fell in.
Kearia saved the life of her younger brother, emergency personnel said, and died while doing so.