122 fishermen rescued from ice floes in the US
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122 fishermen were rescued from an ice floe on Lake Superior, Minnesota, with no injuries after the ice broke away from the shore.
122 fishermen who were stuck on an ice floe that that moved from a lake in the US state of Minnesota, have been rescued and are and are safe. This is reported by Northern News Now, according to UNN.
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More than 100 fishermen were rescued from an ice floe on Lake Superior on Friday evening after the ice broke away from the shore and they were stranded.
According to the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office, a total of 122 people were evacuated from the ice floe within hours.
The emergency service of the district Beltrami received a call shortly before 5 p.m. that dozens of fishermen were stranded on a piece of ice that had separated from the main shore and was separated by and were separated by more than 30 feet of open water.
When the first rescuers arrived at the scene When the first rescuers arrived at the scene, they immediately began to identify a place for the safe evacuation of those on the ice. For the rescue operation, the rescuers went to a resort on the the southeastern shore of Upper Red Lake.
At some point before the rescuers arrived bystanders tried to canoe to their ice floe to evacuate the fishermen, but four people fell into the open water and were returned to evacuate the fishermen, but four people fell into open water and were returned to the the ice floe to stay warm in the fishermen's shelter.
Three hours later, shortly after 7:30 pm, all of the stranded fishermen were safely airlifted to shore by air, and no one was injured.
