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Last updated May 8, 2008 10:54 a.m. PT

Report of hang glider down in Lake Sammamish was false alarm

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- The King County sheriff's helicopter and boat responded urgently to a report of a hang glider down in Lake Sammamish only to find out it was a balloon in the water.

Sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart (URK'-hart) says someone on the shore of the lake near Issaquah saw the party balloon in the water near a rower wearing a yellow jacket and thought it looked like a hang glider.

Urquhart says no one needed rescuing in the Thursday morning incident.

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