Roanoke Rapids firefighters and members of Roanoke Valley Rescue Squad used a mobile unit at the former Manning Elementary School site this afternoon to practice vertical ventilation on its roof.
A 68-year-old man drowned this evening off a cove in the Eastern Shores subdivision of Lake Gaston.
A 30-year-old man drowned at the beach of the Roanoke Rapids Lake Park this evening, Roanoke Rapids police said.
