BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Despite the winter storm we’re getting, local ponds and lakes are starting to thaw, which could be dangerous if you step foot on them.<\/p>\n
That’s why the Keystone Water Rescue team and Mount Pleasant Fire Company Dive Team held a joint training class on Saturday at Blue Marsh Lake.<\/p>\n
Crews say they trained for an ice emergency, whether it’s someone stuck on the surface and holding on, or if the person succumbs to hypothermia and slips underwater.<\/p>\n
“But there’s different areas that (are) maybe a foot thick or two inches thick or four inches thick. It doesn’t form or thaw uniformly, so the fact is that your next step may be a fatal one,” said Robert Stichter, Keystone Water Rescue.<\/p>\n
Both teams were led by certified instructors and had backup divers and EMS workers waiting on standby as a safety precaution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Despite the winter storm we’re getting, local ponds and lakes are starting to thaw,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-120335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}