Dec. 15, 2024 4p
(WGTD)---At least three people fell through thin ice in southeast Wisconsin in recent days.
On Saturday on Wind Lake in Racine County, a 36-year-old Franklin man who’d been walking across the lake fell in several hundred yards from shore.
He was able to hang on to the ice shelf as authorities arrived and prepared a rescue mission.
Deputy Zachary Watson started walking out and made it to the man in the water, but then fell in himself.
According to news releases from both the sheriff’s department and Kansasville Fire and Rescue, an inflatable boat from the fire department was launched from shore.
Firefighters were able to reach both men in the water and pull them into the boat.
Other personnel then reeled in the tethered craft back to shore.
The victim—conscious and alert—was taken to Froedtert In Wauwatosa for treatment.
A couple days earlier, a man fell into Eagle Lake in Racine County and was rescued by a fisherman. He declined medical treatment.
A similar incident occurred over the weekend on a lake in Waukesha County.
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