said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\nUnaware of the tragedy, a relative, Patrick LaPlante, 51, grew worried and went out looking for the trio and spotted Bryan LaPlante in the icy water, according to the troopers.<\/p>\n
New York State police said they got a call about a fatal upstate ice fishing mishap around 7:40 p.m. on Sunday. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
State troopers said two men and a young boy were ice fishing in St. Lawrence County Sunday when tragedy struck. Noah \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Police did not reveal what the relationship was between the two men.<\/p>\n
However, they said the older man crawled toward Bryan LaPlante as he struggled in the water \u2014 only to fall through the ice himself, the press release said. <\/p>\n
He was able to climb out of the water but lost sight of the two missing men.<\/p>\n
The St. Lawrence County Sheriff\u2019s Department helped rescue the two fishermen, but both were pronounced dead. St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Police, who responded to the scene around 7:40 p.m. said Patrick LaPlante had returned home to warm up \u2014 when the 6-year-old boy suddenly showed up at the home drenched and freezing \u2014 but alive \u2014 after walking from the scene of the frigid and deadly mishap by himself.<\/p>\n
Both were taken to Clinton-Fine Hospital and treated for hypothermia. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, state police rushed to the pond and located Bryan LaPlante and Booth, who were unresponsive and still in the water, plucking the two out and performing CPR.<\/p>\n
Both were taken to Gouverneur Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men died after falling through the ice of an upstate New York lake during an ice fishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[318,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,27689,2319,8938,9960,817,58],"class_list":["post-105200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-freak-accidents","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-rescues","tag-snowmobiling","tag-state-police","tag-state-troopers","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}