Ice fisherman killed after fall into Pa. lake ID’d
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SLIPPERY ROCK (AP) — Authorities have identified an elderly ice fisherman who died after he was pulled from a lake at a western Pennsylvania state park.
Officials in Butler County said the victim fell into Lake Arthur’s Big Run Bay in Moraine State Park on Saturday afternoon.
A passer-by on Route 422 spotted something orange in the water called emergency responders at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
A park ranger pulled the man to shore on a pontoon-type sled, and he was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Park operations manager Dan Bickel said that the victim was 73-year-old Kenneth Andres.
Bickel said officials don’t know how long he was in the water. He said the victim was fishing alone “which is never recommended.”