{"id":40913,"date":"2019-01-06T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/man-safe-after-breaking-through-mendenhall-lake\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T02:02:30","slug":"man-safe-after-breaking-through-mendenhall-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/man-safe-after-breaking-through-mendenhall-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Man safe after breaking through Mendenhall Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxcoEceLFEg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Juneau resident Bob Funk was riding his bike on frozen Mendenhall Lake Sunday, and next thing he knew, he broke through the ice and was submerged in icy water.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, a good Samaritan was on scene &mdash; an ice skater with a throw rope &mdash; who helped rescue him and &ldquo;very probably helped save my life,&rdquo; Funk said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Empire on Moday, Funk said that he was racing near the face of the glacier when he broke through thin ice. He was with his 9-year-old grandson and a friend, also on bikes, at the time, enjoying a cold snap along with dozens of other skaters, hockey players, hikers and bikers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think I got overconfident and was going too fast and not paying attention to what was in front of me,&rdquo; he said, adding he didn&rsquo;t realize he was on thin ice until it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>Capital City Fire\/Rescue Assistant Chief Chad Cameron said CCFR received an emergency call about the incident just after 2 p.m. After the good citizen thew a rope in to aid Funk out of the frigid glacier water, Funk made his way back to shore by bike.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were told the person was riding a bike coming on in and was very cold,&rdquo; Cameron said. &ldquo;So we waited at the shore until they got there and got them in a warm ambulance and got some of their wet clothing off. They chose not to go to Bartlett Regional Hospital, so once we got them warm, they were released.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>CCFR responded to a similar incident of a dog falling through the Mendenhall ice a few days earlier, Cameron said. Crews were quickly called off when the dog escaped the water on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron said Mendenhall Lake&rsquo;s ice thickness is variable but ice near the glacier&rsquo;s face and Nugget Falls always merit extra caution.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s hidden dangers out there all the time,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lsquo;Good citizen&rsquo; provides rescue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":40947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[482,92,75,130,319],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-bike","tag-capital-city-fire-rescue","tag-local-news","tag-mendenhall-glacier","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40913"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}