Fishers Woman, Dog Saved From Frozen Pond

FISHERS, IN — A Fishers woman and her dog were rescued from a frozen pond Tuesday after the woman made an attempt to save the pup, who had fallen through the ice. "My dog just fell in the pond," Kara Henderson told a 911 dispatcher, according to IndyStar. They were at the Britton Ridge subdivision near Cumberland Road and 131st Street.

"I'm going in after him," Henderson told the dispatcher, IndyStar reported, to which the dispatcher replied "I don't want you to go in after him."

Fearing for her dog, who one 911 called said looked like a golden lab, Henderson didn't listen to the dispatcher. She went into the pond.

Soon after, a 911 caller told the dispatcher "There is a person stuck in the lake with a dog... Hurry up. She's freezing," according to IndyStar, which received the transcript from the fire department.

Henderson was standing in the water with her dog while an onlooker threw big rocks near her, trying to break the ice so she could walk out.

Fishers firefighters arrived and attempted to throw her a rope, but she couldn't slide the rope around her body because she was still holding the dog. "She was on her tippy toes in the water, and there was no way she could manage [gripping the rope] while holding the dog," Fishers Fire Capt. John Mehling said, according to IndyStar.

Henderson put the dog on the ice, which broke soon after. Firefighters entered the pond and saved the pup, then threw the rope to Henderson, who was now able to grip it and was pulled to shore.

Henderson refused medical treatment, according to IndyStar, even though she had been in the freezing water for about 10 minutes.

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