STANTON TOWNSHIP, MI-- A man had to be rescued when he fell through the ice at the Stanton Township beach Sunday.
The Houghton County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched around 8:15 p.m. and found the 22-year-old Macomb man still in the water, holding onto the break wall. Another man who witnessed the event was also on the break wall.
Deputies and a DNR conservation officer used ropes to assist both people along the icy wall back to shore. The 22-year-old was taken to UPHS-Portage for treatment of hypothermia.
Stanton Township First Responders assisted at the scene.
