Georgia news anchor falls to her death from North Carolina waterfall
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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.
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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."