More than 100 rescued from ice floe that detached from Minnesota lakeshore

More than 100 people were rescued from an ice floe that apparently broke free from a fishing area along the shore of Upper Red Lake in Minnesota on Friday evening, authorities said.

More than 100 people were rescued from an ice floe that apparently broke free from a fishing area along the shore of Upper Red Lake in Minnesota on Friday evening, authorities said.

Of the 122 taken to safety, four had fallen into the icy waters during an earlier rescue attempt by bystanders using a canoe, the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

"They were brought back to the ice floe to warm in a fishing shelter," it said.

First responders received the first call of people stranded on an ice floe just before 5 p.m., and by 7:37 p.m. all people on the floe had been rescued, the sheriff's office said.

Multiple agencies responded to the emergency, it said.

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