Back in January, several individuals risked their lives to rescue two adults who had fallen through the ice at Muscoot Reservoir in Somers. Six of those were honored at the annual Somers Police Awards ceremony held during the Town Board meeting on September 2. Among those honored were Troopers Paul Carinci and Timothy Gleason of the New York State Police, Somers Police Officer Peter Gobbo, Somers School District employee Kenny Schirmer as well as Michael Gorian. The sixth awardee was not present. The men formed a human chain and rescued the two persons that fell through the ice and had been in the water for at least 25 minutes.
The video of the presentation by Chief Driscoll is here starting at 19:52 on the tape counter and at about 10:42 in running time.
Accounts of the rescue are in the August 2010 edition of the Hudson Valley Firefighter at page 11 and in the Chappaqua-Mount Kisco Patch in a story by Jonann Brady on January 29, 2010.
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