Driver Safe After Pick-up, Fish House Break Through Ice

ALEXANDRIA (WJON News) -- No one was hurt when a pick-up pulling a fish house fell through the ice.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says the incident happened Tuesday at about 1:00 p.m. on Lake Mary.

The 40-year-old driver Christopher Block of Alexandria was safe and got out of the vehicle.

The vehicle broke through the ice on the main channel between Little Mary and Big Mary.

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The Sheriff's Office says the area has a large pressure ridge and was near the cattails. The ice was about three to four inches thick where the truck broke through in four feet of water.

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