As winters warm, falling through the ice is becoming more common — and deadly
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Fishermen cast their lines while ice fishing on Lake Simcoe in the Innisfil area north of Toronto, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)FILE - Roswell Schaeffer, an Inupiaq hunter and fisher, takes his great-grandson James Schaeffer, 7, and James' cousin Charles Gallahorn, 10, hunting in Kotzebue, Alaska, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)In this 2025 photo provided by Jimmy Brown, his brother Elmer Brown, left, poses for a photo with his daughter Elizabeth at the high school in Kotzebue, Alaska. Elmer Brown died in November 2025 of hypothermia after falling through the ice while hunting caribou. (Courtesy of Jimmy Brown via AP)Holes for ice fishing are made on the frozen Lake Simcoe in the Innisfil area north of Toronto, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)FILE - Seal hunter Wilbur Kuzuzuk, 53, drags a spotted seal, his only catch of the day, to the edge of the lagoon in Shishmaref, Alaska, on Oct. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)FILE - People ice fish on a frozen Lake Elmore, March 3, 2024, in Elmore, Vt. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)FILE - Tristen Pattee and his family eat a meal of beluga whale, bowhead whale, whitefish, moose and seal in Ambler, Alaska, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)FILE - Caribou antlers sit on a roof in Kotzebue, Alaska, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)A four-wheeler sits idle in Kotzebue, Alaska, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Roswell Schaeffer, an Inupiaq hunter and fisher, organizes hunting equipment next to his covered snowmobile outside his home in Kotzebue, Alaska, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
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Fishermen cast their lines while ice fishing on Lake Simcoe in the Innisfil area north of Toronto, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)