The woman and the dogs who fell into the melt got out of the water themselves with the help of a bystander. The rescue service took the group to the rescue station to warm up.
Dog sled fell into the ice at Kemijärvi in Lapland.
The emergency services received information about the accident on Wednesday at 15:37. According to the release, the sled had fallen into the ice under the bridge crossing Kuumalammi and Pöyliöjärvi, where there was only a few centimeters of ice. A sledge, a French woman driving the sledge and several sled dogs had fallen through the ice into the melt.
There had been only a meter of water under the bridge, and the woman had gotten out of the water with the help of a bystander who had made an emergency call. The dogs were also removed from the water before the rescue service arrived. The rescue service lifted the sled from the melt.
“I don't remember a similar incident happening before,” Kemijärvi station master Tomi Ollila says in the announcement.
The woman and the dogs were able to warm up at the Kemijärvi rescue station. It was 15–20 degrees below zero in Kemijärvi during the day.
The dogs rested in the yard of the Kemijärvi rescue station.
The French woman and the team had been on their way from Hossa to Nordkapp in northern Norway. The trip had already been made for 16 days, and the woman, who enjoys sledding, assured the rescue service that she intended to continue the trip despite the dip. The whole trip is supposed to last ten weeks.
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