Sheet of ice drifts out into lake near Canada carrying 100 fishers

Sheet of ice drifts out into lake near Canada carrying 100 fishers

Source: USA TODAY

12/30/2023

More than 120 ice fishers were rescued in Minnesota Friday after they became stranded on a large sheet of ice that had drifted out into a lake.

Emergency responders in Beltrami County, Minnesota, launched an "ice rescue" mission to evacuate 122 fishers from an ice floe, a sheet of floating ice that had detached from the shoreline of Minnesota's Upper Red Lake, authorities said.

Upper Red Lake

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