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4 rescued from icy pond in southwest Omaha
Published Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 02:04 PM
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Residents of a southwest Omaha neighborhood are being hailed as heroes after they helped rescue four people from an icy pond. Omaha's assistant fire chief Dan Stolinski says two children _ ages 8 and 9 _ were chasing geese on the frozen pond Tuesday evening and fell through the thinning ice. The water temperature was about 32 degrees. A woman living near the pond and her 17-year-old daughter tried to help the boys, but they, too, fell through the ice. So some neighbors, including a former North Platte firefighter, went to their rescue, using a ladder and garden hoses to get them all to safety. The rescue took just minutes. Stolinski says the four showed signs of hypothermia and were treated at the hospital. The depth of the pond wasn't known.

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