DEC reports that a bystander had watched the moose walk out onto Lake Abanakee and fall through the ice approximately 200 feet from the town beach.

Police called in the help of trained DEC staff to get the moose out of the water. DEC Rangers Evan Nahor and Matt Savarie used jet sleds to keep themselves from falling through the ice as they cut a passage through the ice from where the moose fell into the water to the shore.