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Fond du Lac crews rescue 1 from Lake Winnebago

Updated: Saturday, 26 Jan 2013, 9:45 PM CST
Published : Saturday, 26 Jan 2013, 11:59 AM CST

FOND DU LAC - A man who spent at least 30 minutes in frigid waters after his snowmobile broke through thin ice is expected to survive.

Crews rescued Kelly Miliam, 47, of Fond du Lac from Lake Winnebago Friday night.

The Fond du Lac Sheriff's Department received a called just after 11 p.m. saying someone was yelling for help..

Officials responded to Frazier Drive and Doty Street and found the man 250 yards offshore in open water and unable to get out.

Fond du Lac fire crews were able to bring him to safety.

Sheriff's Lt. Bill Tadych says Milam was found in 5 to 6 feet of water, "deep enough to kill a person." He'd been in the lake for 30 to 45 minutes.

Officials say Milam had severe hypothermia and was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Milam was too cold to communicate clearly, but authorities eventually determined no one else was in the water.
    
Tadych says local ice conditions are "marginal" at best.

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