This is actually the first winter ever Im kind of liking. Because I could do this almost every weekend.
[media]http://vimeo.com/19778740[/media]
...and in local news (local to me)
more local to Plum actually...
One of these guys is 79
WEST MILFORD — Two pairs of ATV riders had to be rescued Sunday night
>after plunging into frigid Greenwood Lake about an hour apart, police
>said.
>
>The first call came at 7:40 p.m., reporting a pair of men shouting for
>help about 200 feet from the shoreline — including one who said he could
> not swim — along Long Pond Road near the Awosting Community Boat House,
> according to police.
>
>With assistance from local residents Scott and Dean Carmichael and
>several others, township police officer Anthony Frassa was able to pull
>55-year-old Ronald Gerlach and
79-year-old Alan Lepera to safety, police
> said.
>
>The West Milford First Aid Squad and Chilton Advanced Life Support Unit
>treated the men for hypothermia and took them to Morristown Memorial
>Hospital, because responders were unsure how long they had been in the
>water, according to police.
>
>The West Milford Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 placed cones and caution tape around the 30-by-20-foot hole in the ice.
>
>At 8:59 p.m., police responded to Sommerville Road for another report of ATV riders who had fallen through ice at the lake.
>
>Township officer James Fulton donned an ice rescue suit alongside
>members of the West Milford Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 and made their
>way through the cold water to two victims, Ronald Linskey, a 48-year-old
> township resident, and a juvenile from Lincoln Park.
>
>Police said the victims had ridden their ATVs into an area of open water
> several hundred feet from the shoreline. They were extracted from the
>lake and placed in a rowboat, which had been guided through the water by
> the ice rescue team, police said.
>
>Both men were treated on scene by the Upper Greenwood Lake Volunteer
>Ambulance Corp. The men refused further medical attention, so a medevac
>helicopter was called off, police said.
>
>Rescuers from the fire company included Deputy Chief Ted Andreniuk,
>Kevin Townsend, Katherine Schile and James Walsh, police said.
>
>Police contacted the state Department of Environmental Protection and
>Michelle Slyker, who responded from the Passaic County Health
>Department, because of the environmental impact of the ATVs in the
>water.
>
>Both incidents remain under investigation by township police.
>
> Created: 2/21/2011 | Updated: 2/21/2011
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