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Feb 25, 2021 An ice fisherman in Minnesota may not have caught a lot of fish on Monday, but he did save two lives. Chad Schmidt was inside his ice shack on Lake Traverse when he heard something outside and looked out to see a pickup truck plunge through the ice. He ran to his truck, grabbed a tow strap and rushed to the hole in the ice. Schmidt was able to use the strap to pull up 56-year-old Pete Katalinas and 72-year-old Lloyd Nelson. The men refused medical attention, but admitted to Traverse County Sheriff Trevor Wright that their rescuer arrived in the nick of time because they were ...
KVRR Local News February 23, 2021 WHEATON, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – Two men from Wheaton are thankful that Chad Schmidt was fishing nearby when the pickup they were in sank close to an ice heave on Lake Traverse Monday afternoon. Schmidt, of Dumont, who was in his fish house, saw the pickup sinking when he looked out the window. He grabbed a tow strap from his pickup and pulled both men from the water. Traverse County Sheriff Trevor Wright says one of the men told him that he was nearly exhausted when Schmidt pulled him to solid ice. Wright says the ice kept breaking as the men tried to get ou...