Her husband, Kyle Linden Webster, and one other person were also caught, but escaped to shore.

Pomeroy and her sous chef Mika Paredes opened Beast on September 2007.

Beast closed around the time of the pandemic.

Naomi Pomeroy from Top Chef Masters

Naomi PomeroyFrederick M. Brown/Getty Images

Her most-recent project was Expatriate, a bar she and Webster started.

The bar was temporarily closed on Monday after her death.

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