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Anglers Stumped, Swamped, Rescued and Reheated

October 31, 2011 - Greenwood -Two fishermen on Round Pond in Greenwood found themselves stumped Sunday afternoon, but not by the fish.

The two were fishing from their aluminum motorboat when they ran up over one of the many stumps in the pond and were dumped into the water. The boat was swamped.

When the Bethel Fire Department rescue boat got there, “one man was on a stump, and the other was hanging on to the stump,” said Chief Mike Jodrey.

The mishap occurred just off Route 26, in the same area where a car went off the road and into the pond last year.

The BFD boat delivered the fishermen to a PACE ambulance waiting on shore at the boat ramp.

The men were not in danger of drowning, said Jodrey, but the body temperature of one was down to 90 degrees.

PACE warmed the men in the back of the ambulance and later released them.

Greenwood Fire Chief Al Curtis said one man was from Rhode Island, and the other recently moved to this area from Chicago.

Also responding to the call was the Woodstock Fire Department with its cold water rescue team and Game Warden Norm Lewis. Curtis said rescuers were on the scene for about an hour.

Alison Aloisio, Bethel Citizen, October 2011


Lakes: Round Pond
Regions: Sebago


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