Burleigh McCoy

And I had the lake rescue team around, so it wasn't scary or anything.

It was pretty much the safest situation I could ever be in going into a frozen lake.

So another team member brought over this bright yellow rescue sled and attached my arms into a thick loop.

We're going to pull her out.

Then he flagged the shore team to start pulling on this ice anchored rope that was attached to the sled.

Yeah, this year, not a lot because the ice has been super thick.

But that's not always the case.

Justin said that's because there were multiple freezes and thaws, which led to a particular kind of ice shelf that's super dangerous.

But it's not solid ice at all, and a person who was walking on the ice at night fell through.

Oh, gosh.

Was he okay?

So they got him out?

They got him out.

And in drone footage from the rescue, you can see that the ice just keeps breaking up when the rescuers are trying to get to them.

And when they all get pulled off the ice, like it just keeps breaking up because of this false ice shelf that Justin was talking about.

And Justin said the person was probably in the water for around 25 minutes trying to get out of the water before they called for help.

But they were okay.

Yeah, unfortunately they don't.

And the frequency of both people going through the ice and people drowning from ice breakthroughs are increasing globally as climate change drives up the average temperature.

This is Sapna Sharma.