Chetek, WI Truck Recovery From Thin Ice – 3/26/2018

Warmer temps are causing ice on the areas lake to become weaker. This truck went through on Prairie Lake. Ice was 12 inches thick however where the truck dropped through the ice was down to around 5 to 6 inches of ice. No one was hurt when the truck went through.
Shot Description

Clip 1-2. A truck that broke through the weaken ice.
Clip 3. Crew cutting the ice from around the truck.
Clip 4. Crew pushing the cut ice under the main sheet of ice.
Clip 5. Diver in the water pushing the ice chunks out of the way.
Clip 6- 10. Truck being lifted out of the water.
Clip 11. Truck being pulled to thicker ice.
Clip 12. Truck being pulled towards the boat landing.
Clip 13. Open water were the truck was.
Clip 14. Truck sitting on land.
Clip 15. Truck on a flatbed truck.
Clip 16. Ice chunks in the water.
Clip 17. A look inside the truck with ice and water in it.

SID: Dirk Miller

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