(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 20-year-old Lake Bluff man died outside Anchorage, Alaska after getting stuck in tidal mud flats.
The place where Zachary Porter died, called Turnagain Arm, is notorious for this kind of thing.
Others have died there and many have been rescued.
It’s a 48-mile estuary that runs along a highway between Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula.
Signs warn people about the danger. Alaska State Troopers say Porter was walking with friends when he became stuck in the quicksand-like silt.
One of his friends called 911 when they couldn’t free him. The tide was coming in it was too late to save him.
He drowned. Volunteer firefighter Kristy Peterson, who responded, said, “it’s Mother Nature, and she has no mercy for humanity.”
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