SAUK COUNTY, Wis. (WMTV)---Friends helped rescue a man who fell through the ice on a lake in Sauk County on Wednesday morning.

According to the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office, the 28-year-old Reedsburg man had fallen through the ice on Dutch Hallow Lake in the Town of Woodland just after 10:30 a.m. A group of five people were walking out on the lake to ice fish.

Sheriff officials said a 20-year-old Reedsburg man attempted to rescue the man, and then he fell partially through the ice. That’s when a 24-year-old man from LaValle, a 25-year-old Reedsburg woman and a 20-year-old Reedsburg man formed a human chain to pull the two men out of the water. They successfully were able to get the two men out of the water and to shore safely.

Both men who fell through the ice were transported to a local hospital. The other three were not injured in this incident.

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