December 18, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
Firefighters rescued a local woman Thursday after she fell through thin ice on an area lake.
The Brighton Area Fire Authority says they received a call for a person through the ice on Big Crooked Lake just after 5:30pm. The victim, identified as a middle-age female from Genoa Township, was reportedly in the water approximately 75 feet from shore. Chief of Training Greg Mowbray says first arriving crews were on scene within five minutes. After crews dressed out in cold water rescue suits, two âwater rescuersâ made entry onto the partially frozen lake and were able to keep the woman afloat and secured to them while additional on-scene rescuers were able to extract all three using safety tethers.