WATERBORO, Maine — A helmet camera captured the moment three men pulled a teenage girl from a freezing cold lake.
Officials in Waterboro said she fell off a snowmobile and into the water.
On Feb. 4, a day of ice fishing on Little Ossipee Lake turned into a dramatic rescue, when a 16-year-old girl was thrown off a snowmobile and into the freezing water. Authorities said the driver dove in twice but couldn’t reach her.
Bill Rodgers said he was talking to another fisherman when they saw a man run toward the water, and he just knew someone had gone in.
“So I yelled for rope, and Taylor ran back to his shack, and he had a coil of like, mountain climber rope,” Rodgers said. “He came back, and we jumped on a four wheeler and shot across the lake.”
The York County Sheriff’s Office said a third man came over on his all-terrain vehicle, and together, the three men sprang into action.
It was all captured on the camera on the helmet of the ATV rider.
Using rope as a lifeline, they pulled until the teen was back on solid ground. The sheriff’s office said the men put themselves in harm’s way for a stranger and is calling them heroes.
Rodgers said he’s just glad this story has a happy ending.