2023-12-30 09:09:47
AP
Red Lake, Minnesota (USA)
Updated Saturday, December 30, 2023 – 08:09
It took approximately two and a half hours to finally evacuate 122 people from the berg, with no injuries reported.
Rescue services on Upper Red Lake.TV CAPTURE
More than 100 fishermen who were stranded on an ice floe that broke off in a river Minnesota They were rescued this Friday, indicated the authorities in the area.
The fishermen were on the iceberg in the southeastern area of the lago Upper Red in the county Beltrami —about 322 kilometers northwest of Minneapolis—when it broke away from the coast. Shortly before 5:00 p.m., an emergency call reported that people were stranded and were more than 9 meters from the coast, according to a statement from the Beltrami County Police Department.
No one had fallen through the ice. But before the rescuers arrived, some people who were nearby tried to rescue some of the trapped individuals in canoes and four of them fell into the water, said the police. They were taken back to the ice floe to warm up in a fishing shelter, he added.
It took approximately two and a half hours to finally evacuate 122 people from the iceberg, with no injuries reported, according to police.
State officials have been warning people to be careful with the ice, which is unusually thin for this time of winter.
The fishermen were stranded a day after a passenger died when a commercial transport vehicle sank when ice broke on the lake of the woodsreported the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper.
Tracked vehicles, nicknamed “bombers” locally, are used to take clients to fishing spots far from the coast.
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