Man, teen girl saved from freezing river

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Thompson RCMP and firefighters managed to save a young man and a teenage girl after their snowmobile broke through the ice of the Burntwood River on New Year’s Day.

Police and emergency crews were sent to the river, near the Miles Hart Bridge, just after 9 p.m. and found the man and teen after a 911 operator told them to turn on a cellphone flashlight.

The 20-year-old man and 16-year-old girl were stranded on pieces of ice, surrounded by water at least 20 feet from shore, RCMP said in a news release Friday. The snowmobile was partially submerged.

The man had fallen in the water when he tried to walk on the ice but managed to pull himself back to safety. Mounties threw winter jackets to the two people in the -21 C weather as they waited for a rescue raft to arrive.

The two people were taken to hospital as a precaution.