Three would-be fishermen from Steinbach caught a lucky break when rescuers found them stranded on Clearwater Lake, on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve.
The trio — a 19-year-old and two 18-year-olds — headed out for some ice fishing on the lake when their truck broke down, leaving them stranded and ill-equipped for the extreme cold, with the windchill factor making it feel like -38.
A group consisting of RCMP officers, a conservation officer and an off-duty paramedic went out to find them, eventually tracking them down in on the northwestern part of the frozen lake.
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Police said due to the extreme cold, the stranded fishermen and some of the searchers suffered minor injuries.
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