Firefighters Heroically Save Man Trying to Rescue His Dog from Icy Boston Lake in Dramatic Video
From Massachusetts comes a double rescue from under the ice of a frozen lake after a man and his dog found themselves trapped.
Walking beside Lake Waban in Wellesley, Ed Berger was enjoying a nippy afternoon with his dogs Tommy and Oscar, when Tommy saw some birds alighting on the lake’s frozen surface and ran out to try and catch them.
The ice gave way, and Tommy plunged into the freezing water. Berger tried to rescue his dog by commandeering a nearby boat. Without explaining how, the Wellesley Fire Department detailed that Berger fell into the water as well.
Fire Department rescuers arrived on scene and got Berger out of the water before going back in for Tommy. Drone footage capturing the rescue shows how the pair of rescue personnel follow the most important rules for thin ice rescues, namely to perform as many actions as possible while lying on the stomach, or at least kneeling down. This helps disperse a human’s weight and prevents the ice from breaking up further.
The second is that the rescuer who was in the water with Berger lifted him up from below so that he could plant his chest flat on the ice before trying to get the rest of his body out of the water. If no rescue is forthcoming, don’t try to lift yourself out of the water as you would in a swimming pool.
The ice is liable to break under the weight you put down through your flat hands. Instead, put the whole of your arms flat on the ice, and hoist your torso up inch by inch, then wriggle like a seal to get your legs out before heading to the shore on your belly.
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The terrible irony is that Berger is an EMT—and is exactly the person who arrives to help in these situations. He later described the rescue efforts as “hanging out with two guys who knew exactly what they were doing.”
Both dog and owner were taken to medical facilities and treated for hypothermia. Both made full recoveries.
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