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Doug Ketchum, a broker with Prudential Colorado Properties in Vail, died in a hurricane in Mexico Wednesday while surfing.
Doug Ketchum, a broker with Prudential Colorado Properties in Vail, died in a hurricane in Mexico Wednesday while surfing.
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A Vail man was one of two people killed when Hurricane Barbara hit Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Wednesday.

Prudential Colorado Properties realtor Doug Ketchum died in a surfing accident around the time Barbara made landfall.

Colleagues of his at Prudential said he was attending a surf camp at the time.

The director of civil defense for Oaxaca state, Manuel Maza Sanchez, told the Associated Press that Ketchum died while surfing at Playa Azul, a beach near the sparsely populated resort town of Puerto Escondido.

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