MINOCQUA - The Minocqua Police Department says a 56-year-old Dodge County man was able to pull a 56-year-old Mercer man out of a lake after the ice broke under him Thursday.
The department says 56-year-old Jay Taylor, of Mercer, had fallen through the ice on Squirrel Lake in Minocqua at approximately 1:16 p.m. He was approximately 100 yards off shore.
Police say Peter Damrow, 56, of Neosho, found an aluminum boat near a home where Taylor fell through the ice. Damrow was able to push the boat out on the lake and pull Taylor from the water. They weren't able to move the boat back to shore.
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