Holiday Heroics: Passers-By Revive Baby After Truck Lands in Icy Wisconsin Pond

By Published on December 29, 2015

Passers-by helped rescue a young mother, a teenager and a baby from a freezing pond after their vehicle left a western Wisconsin road and broke through the ice.

According to the Polk County, Wis., sheriff’s office, 19-year-old Nycole Stream of Amery, Wis., was driving a 2001 Toyota Tundra north on County Highway H in the town of Apple River at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday when the vehicle apparently veered off the roadway and went down a steep embankment into a pond.

Terry and Pamela Blegen of Balsam Lake saw the truck splash in the pond as they approached the scene.

As Pamela Blegen called 911, Terry Blegen entered the water.

Two more passers-by — Thomas Cole of St. Croix Falls and Shawn Spafford of Amery — joined Blegen in the pond and rescued Stream and a 16-year-old passenger, Krystyna Walenczak of Frederic, Wis., as the two of them struggled to keep their heads above the freezing water, according to the sheriff’s office.

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