March 1999 - Vermont

Radio Scanner Discussion Forum <SCAN-L@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>

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>FYI

>3/21/99

>Dateline Rutland Daily Herald/Sundy Times Argus

>Staff Writer

>John Dillon

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>Ludlow-Vermont

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>:"quick thinking rescuers grabbed a garden hose and

>pulled a Connecticut cross-counrty skier from the frigid

>waters of Lake Rescue Saturady saving the man's life,

>police said.

> Police said Jeremy Greshin 39, was sking near the

>edge of the lake Saturday afternoon when he broke through thin ice.

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>A bystander attempted to pull him out but also fell through

>said Ludlow police dispatcher Brain Anderson. Fortunately

>for both of them. Greg Benson, 29, was at his parents lakeshore

>home when he heard the police Scanner squak with the report

>that the men were in trouble."

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>A number of people were on scene but it was when Benson

>was handed a garden hose that the two men were pulled in.

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>"Beson was a member of the Ludlow Fire Dept. before moved

>to Springfield" ..."And this wasn't Bnson's first rescue. Several

>years ago three snowmobilers went trhough the ice in the same

>place" "I happende to be here that night too. We pulled a of kids

>out of the lake" he said."

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>Now how many others have been saved by having a scanner listener

>go into action? Who says were just a bunch of listening voyuers?

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>Two thumbs up for Benson and for Scanners! Keep our freqs. free!

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