Georgia news anchor dies after slipping off waterfall
Taylor Terrell dies one day before 25th birthday
LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. – Officials say a Georgia news anchor fell about 160 feet to her death after being swept over the top of a waterfall in Transylvania County.
Georgia news anchor died in waterfall accident https://t.co/aXHiWsxwHn pic.twitter.com/yBaPnRfGXv
— AJC (@ajc) July 23, 2016
Multiple media outlets report that 24-year-old Taylor Terrell fell Thursday from Rainbow Falls. She would have turned 25 on Friday.
U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Cathy Dowd says Terrell was wading in a creek at the top of Rainbow Falls when she lost her footing on rocks covered in algae. She says the swift current swept Terrell over Rainbow Falls.
She was an anchor at WMGT in Macon, Georgia, where colleagues say she started in August 2013 as a reporter before being promoted to anchor.
News director Brandon Long described Terrell as "a hard worker with a bright smile."
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