Three Chicago teens who apparently sneaked away from a school-sponsored camp retreat to paddle along a nearby river drowned early Friday. Their paddle boats _ missing floor plugs already removed for the winter _ quickly took on water and sank.
Chaperones at the leadership retreat were likely asleep when a group of students launched four or five paddle boats into the Fox River, said John Greene, battalion chief of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District.
It was not clear how many teens ended up in the water.
"Shenanigans," Greene said. "That's what it looks like."
Police responded at 2 a.m. to a call that three teens were reported missing.
Authorities said after one boat quickly took on water, two boys on the shore went into the river to try to rescue a student, but soon they too went missing.
The boats on the river were taken out of service for the season by having their bottom plugs removed, Didier said.
A total of 31 students were participating in the eight-day retreat at Camp Algonquin that was to end Friday. Officials say there were four chaperones, all of them teachers.
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