BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 8, 2024
Two vehicles broke through the ice at Long Lake in Aroostook County on Saturday. Both were removed. Chris Perkins of Fort Fairfield, who witnessed the incident, said he had drilled a hole near where the truck went in and the ice was 2½ inches thick. “I was standing there screaming at him to stop when he headed out,” Perkins said Monday. The driver escaped but within a short time, another pickup and a tractor arrived and attempted to haul the sunken pickup back to shore. Perkins said they “wound up putting the tractor through the ice as well.”