Many of us saw the news stories about the February 6, 2009 police chase of a suspect onto the ice at Warner's Pond, and the fall through the ice four police officers (three human, one canine) experienced. (Here is video footage on CNN; no idea how long they keep it available so this link may go bad at some point.) The officers managed to crawl over to Boy Scout Island (in the photo at right in the middle-ground) and took care of one another until others reached them. Two days later they caught their man, but in the meantime, the accident brought to consciousness the dangers of our icy bodies of water.
Here follows an entry into the annals of "there's nothing new under the sun"... from a member of the Concord Discussion List now living in the midwest US:
It was with great interest that I read all the e-mails about all the police officers and dog who fell into the pond. I also saw that there was great deal of rescue activity.Note this the current fall through the ice was just 10 days short of the 71st anniversary of the 1938 incident at the very same pond! Thankfully, both with happy endings.
I called my 86 year-old mother to tell her about all the events and the action as I knew she would be interested. She replied in a very quiet voice "Well then there were only the 3 of us."
She was referring to another rescue in which she played a part on February 16, 1938 my mother who was 15 and skating on the pond at the time rescued a young boy who had fallen through the ice. She was helped by his brother. She formed a human chain with his brother at the end. She pulled the young boy out and then the 3 of them went to a nearby house before going home.
Photo Credit: ©Rich Stevenson, Local Color Images
