Twenty people rescued from ice floe in Lake Erie, says US Coast Guard

Coast Guard helicopter, airboats, local fire department and Ottawa sheriff’s office assist people stuck on mile-long sheet of floating ice

Twenty people were rescued from an ice floe in Lake Erie, the Coast Guard said Monday.

The Coast Guard’s ninth district Great Lakes station said it received a report at approximately 10.20am that the people were stuck on a mile-long floe about a half-mile off Catawba Island state park near Port Clinton in Ohio.