Water Patrol Sounding Alert On Lake Minnetonka Ice Ridges: "It's Never Safe"

CBS Minnesota

January 16, 2025

LAKE MINNETONKA, Minn. — As Twin Cities temperatures continue to fluctuate, rescue crews are sounding the alarm on a dangerous facet of Lake Minnetonka.

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Water Patrol says they've made three ice rescues in the past three weeks – twice when ATVs went through the ice and another when an ice skater broke through.

Areas near bridges remain thin, but another, less obvious, feature has them concerned — ice ridges.

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