ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Firefighters in a rescue boat found a man who had jumped into the Mississippi River to catch his boat, which had gotten away in the rapid current. The man was fine, stranded on an island. The man and his son had been upstream on another island when the boat got away. The son called 911 as he watched the boat and his father disappear around a bend. This was south of St. Cloud near the St, Cloud Country Club. What about the boat? It too was recovered.
