RED WING, Minn. – Rescuers in airboats ferried six adults and three children to safety from a break-away ice sheet at a wide point in Lake Pepin. All were well. This was at sundown. The Goodhue County 911 line received a call about 6:35 p.m. that nine people ice-fishing were stranded on the lake. They had entered the ice on all-terrain vehicles from the Maiden Rock landing on the Wisconsin side. The next challenge for Goodhue County rescuers: How to retrieve the ATVs and fishing gear off the ice sheet.
Stranded mid-lake. Ice-fishing group had ventured out on ATVs.
