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PORTAGE TWP First responders and law enforcement officers were called to rescue a hunter here this past Saturday after the man became stuck in waist deep water in a partially frozen marsh. The …
ELY â Canoe Country Outfitters made the 911 call. A canoe overturned on the East Loon Bay Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. One man swam to shore. The other was missing.
It was around 11:41 a.m. on Monday when the St. Louis County Sheriffâs Office received the call and joined its Rescue Squad, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Crane Lake Fire and First Responders and the Orr Ambulance in responding to Handbergâs Marine on Crane Lake for the water emergency on East Loon.
The men, Denis Guenther, 65, of Grand Junction, Colo., and Wayne Morrow, 73, of Fort Lupton, Colo., had been canoeing on the lake âwhen they encountered heavy rain and winds due to a severe storm passing through the area,â the St. Louis County Sheriffâs Office said in a news release on Tuesday.
David Colburn
CRANE LAKE- If someone had asked who was responsible for the beautiful sunny day at Crane Lake last Saturday, chances are good the reply would have been longtime community resident Sandy Bodkin.
Bodkin passed away in September 2019 at the age of 85, but her memory and joyful spirit were palpable as about 65 people gathered along Handberg Road on Saturday to dedicate a new emergency helicopter landing pad in her honor.
While some rural areas are close enough to a hospital that an ambulance can make the trip in the time it would take for a helicopter to arrive at the scene and transport a patient, that’s not the case in Crane Lake, which is 40 miles from the nearest hospital and 140 miles away from the nearest trauma center.