VIDEO/PHOTOS: It was a case of the right people being in the right place at the right time. On Tuesday, members of the King County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit and Mercer Island Police were conducting water rescue training at Fish Lake in the Cascade Mountains when a man fell through the ice right in front of them.
“We saw a guy out of the corner of our eye walking back and one of our guys said ‘he just went through!’” said Sgt. Rich Barton, who works with the sheriff’s office marine unit. The team had just finished their training exercise, but was still in their water rescue gear and had their equipment with them. “My guys were falling in the ice trying to get to this guy,” Barton said.
