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Nelson House RCMP rescues three men stranded on ice due to extreme cold

Nelson House RCMP was able to find three men stranded out on the ice last weekend.

 

On Saturday afternoon, the detachment was notified that the trio was stranded out on the ice as they intended to walk to a camp near Threepoint Lake, south of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation.

 

The men were walking towards the camp when they realized that they wouldn’t be able to make the return trip due to the cold. The temperatures that afternoon fell between the minus 30 to minus 35 range.

 

Two officers from Nelson House each set out on a snowmobile and found the three men, with two of them said to have not been wearing proper winter attire for extreme cold.

 

They were rescued and taken to the nursing station for examination, and one of the men was taken to Thompson Hospital for treatment and has since been released.

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