More than 100 people had to be rescued from an ice floe in a Minnesota lake on Friday. - Julia Sudnitskaya/Dreamstime/TNS
More than 100 people were safely rescued from an ice floe that detached from the shoreline of a northern Minnesota lake Friday night, authorities said.
The ice chunk had broken off from a fishing area on the southeastern shore of Upper Red Lake, the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Emergency workers were dispatched for an ice rescue just after 5 p.m., local time.
Before they arrived at the scene, bystanders attempted to rescue those on the ice using a canoe. However, their attempt failed and four individuals fell into the open water and were brought back to the ice floe.
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