Firefighters rescued a teen girl who had fallen through the ice into the frigid water of a pond in Malden, Massachusetts, on Wednesday afternoon.
It happened around 2 p.m. at Fellsmere Pond, fire officials said. Firefighters in water rescue suits went in to find the girl holding onto the edge of the ice, according to the Malden Fire Department. She was pulled from the water in under 30 seconds.
“I don’t even think the engine stopped,” Malden Fire Captain Roy Tribble said. “I jumped up, I sprinted down here, pretty much just jumped right into the water.”
The 14-year-old girl was conscious and alert when she was brought to a Boston hospital for treatment.
Tribble said the water was about 30 feet deep.
“A life was saved. It was a young girl who fell through the ice,” added Captain Bob Hegarty.
He warned everyone to stay off thin ice.
“A warning to everybody out there that ice, if it’s not thick enough, you’re going to fall through, and if you fall through, you’re not going to be able to get yourself out,” Hegarty said. “So stay off the ice until it’s very thick, which — who can tell when it’s very thick?”
