A man and a woman are in hospital after they fell through thin ice on the Scugog River near Colborne Street West in Lindsay Thursday (March 7) morning.
Police, fire and EMS crews were called to the scene at about 10:45 a.m. after a neighbour heard screams coming from the river. The neighbour had just come outside his house with his dog, when he heard both the man and woman screaming for help and immediately ran inside to call 911.
He then ran toward the pair, calling 911 a second time from his cell phone.
He told This Week that the man in the water was starting to go under, but the woman managed to get herself and the man out of the water by the time he got there, so there was not much more he could do but, “just keep ensuring them that someone was on their way and when they came, flag them down.”
Which is just what he did, adding that he was, “just trying to be a good Samaritan.”
While he says the woman was more vocal and seemed more responsive, the man she was with seemed to be in worse shape and not as responsive once he was pulled from the water.
Kawartha Lakes EMS Commander of Quality Assurance Ron McMillan says crews don’t know how long the couple were in the water for, but added, “long enough that the one victim is suffering significant hypothermia,” he said referring to the man.
The woman, he said, was obviously cold, but seemed to be in better shape.
Both were taken to Ross Memorial Hospital by ambulance.
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Two through ice on Scugog River
