At 1 PM a NYC Parks Employee went to fix a fence at pond 15 in Van Cortlandt Park. He found footprints leading to a hole in the middle of the pond, but none back at the time. His supervisor was called to the site, and the NYPD, NYFD, and EMS quickly responded to what seemed to be someone who may have fallen through the ice.
It was decided to send two divers down the hole to look for anyone who could be under the frozen lake. After an extensive search for over an hour the rescue mission was called off as an EMS supervisor told me that a person could only survive for thirty or forty minutes at the most in the freezing water under the ice top.
Above - The footprints you see are those of rescue workers who one at a time went to investigate the hole in the ice to try to see if anyone was floating under the Ice.
Below - The Police and Fire Department rescuers are waiting for scuba divers to go into the hole in the ice to look for anyone who may be underwater. However no one was found in the pond.
