the Enterprise staff This past week in the Adirondacks, the state Department of Environmental Conservation rescued fishermen from a floating ice sheet, helped an injured snowmobiler and and rescued a couple whose vehicle got stuck on a snowmobile trail. –
– On Mar. 1 at 3 p.m., DEC environmental conservation police officers (ECOs), DEC forest rangers and the Cumberland Head Fire Department helped two anglers stranded on a floating ice sheet on Lake Champlain in the town of Plattsburgh. Fire department personnel accessed the men, from Plattsburgh, with an inflatable rescue craft and brought one of them safely to shore. When rangers arrived on scene, two fire department personnel and the second angler and his gear were still on the ice sheet. ECOs and rangers launched the airboat, and Ranger Glen Bronson was able to retrieve all parties and gear from the ice and bring them back to shore.