BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard official is warning people who use the ice of Lake Champlain and other lakes that the ice is unusually thin this winter.
The warning came after three people died on Saturday after the snowmobiles they were riding on went through the ice on Vermont's Lake Dunmore.
Brent Walsh of the Burlington Coast Guard Station says no ice is safe.
And he says that's especially true this winter.
He tells WCAX-TV the ice formed later than usual and a thick snowcover helps insulate the ice from the cold, keeping it from freezing thicker.
Walsh says that every season the Coast Guard responds to five to 10 ice rescues on Lake Champlain.
