EDMONTON Search and rescue crews have been unable to find the body of a 55-year-old man who fell through river ice in west Edmonton Tuesday. It happened near the Buena Vista Park off-leash area just north of Laurier Park and the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Witnesses said the man rushed out onto the North Saskatchewan River ice around 12:30 p.m. to help a stranger retrieve her dog. “He made it to the dog, tried pulling the dog up. He was probably 50 feet out into open water and the dog struggled and the ice broke. The man got swept under, he popped up a couple times, that’s the last time we saw him,” Monica Ness told CTV News Edmonton at the scene.
EDMONTON Search and rescue crews have been unable to find the body of a 55-year-old man who fell through river ice in west Edmonton Tuesday. It happened near the Buena Vista Park off-leash area just north of Laurier Park and the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Witnesses said the man rushed out onto the North Saskatchewan River ice around 12:30 p.m. to help a stranger retrieve her dog. “He made it to the dog, tried pulling the dog up. He was probably 50 feet out into open water and the dog struggled and the ice broke. The man got swept under, he popped up a couple times, that’s the last time we saw him,” Monica Ness told CTV News Edmonton at the scene.