The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says a Fort Dodge man died after being pulled from Big Wall Lake in Wright County Thanksgiving Day. Wright County Conservation Board and Wright County sheriff’s officials responded to a call around 4:30 p.m. of a man in distress at the game management area and found 55-year old Kevin Simons,  facedown in about 2 ½ feet of water approximately 200 yards from shore.

Simons was pulled from the water, treated at the scene but later died at the hospital. Authorities believe he died from exposure and hypothermia.