‘Right place, right time’: Dive team rescues man who fell through the ice in front of them

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…

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