Youth walking across thin ice
BELLEVILLE – As warm spring weather approaches, the Madoc OPP are warning young people to stay off thawing creeks.
Police encourage parents to speak to their children about spring water safety and remind them to stay away from all lakes, rivers, streams, creeks, ditches and ponds. Although the creeks still have areas with snow and ice coverage, it also has open areas of fast flowing deep water.
On March 10, youth were reported walking and jumping on the thawing creek that runs parallel to Durham Street South in Madoc. When police arrived to the scene, there were no children at the creek. The resident that reported the incident said that on a previous occasion, youth had been jumping off a foot bridge in attempts to break the ice on the creek.
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