Record-Breaking PR Stunt Ends in Citywide Chaos

Tragedy Strikes

The most devastating outcome of Balloonfest took place on Lake Erie. The day prior, two men, Raymond Broderick and Bernard Sulzer, had gone out fishing. They never made it home alive.

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