Firefighters describe terrifying moment teenage girl broke though ice and plunged into 30-foot deep Massachusetts lake

Firefighters rescued a teenage girl who fell through the ice of a frozen pond, plunging into the 30-foot-deep water of a Massachusetts lake.

When rescue teams arrived at Fellsmere Pond in Malden, a suburb north of Boston, around 2 p.m. Wednesday, they found the 14-year-old girl holding onto the edge of the ice, NBC Boston reported.

Officials with the Malden Fire Department had to break the rest of the ice to pull the girl out of the frigid waters to safety. They said they were able to make the save within about 30 seconds of their arrival…

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