Town manager of Carmel, Maine, dies saving son, 4, after both fall through frozen pond
Kevin Howell, the manager of Caramel, Maine, died after saving his 4-year-old son when both fell through a frozen pond while out on a walk Friday, police said.
The manager of a town in Maine died after saving his 4-year-old son when both fell through a frozen pond while out on a walk Friday, police said.
Kevin Howell, 51, was walking with his son around 6:30 a.m. when they broke through Etna Pond, about 1/3 of a mile from their Carmel home, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
Howell managed to get his son out of the water and told him to go get his mother, the sheriff’s office said. After the boy ran home and told his mother what happened, she called 911, grabbed an anchor and rope and ran to the pond to help her husband.
Kevin HowellTown of CarmelShe tied the rope on the shore but also fell through the ice, according to the sheriff’s office. A detective in the area who had heard the 911 call responded and crawled across the “treacherous” ice, holding on to the rope as he went, and pulled the woman out.
However, there was no trace of Howell, the sheriff’s office said. Members of the Maine Warden Service and the Carmel Fire Department arrived, but they also couldn’t find Howell.
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