Karen JordanCrews are searching for a missing swimmer in Lake Michigan at Lighthouse Beach in Evanston, Illinois on Monday afternoon.Lighthouse Beach is off-limits while crews continue their search Monday for a swimmer who disappeared after jumping in the water.
"Even our rescuers this morning, during the search effort, was reporting extremely hazardous current and wave conditions that they were facing as they were in their vessels," said Matt Smith with the Evanston Fire Department. "It just didn't look like everything was going well, so I got down to my shorts and jumped in water, grabbed mother and the daughter, and one of the other girls, and pulled them up," Flanagan said.