Ottawa firefighters conducted an unusual rescue operation on Sunday afternoon when they worked to free a 27-year-old woman who was trapped in the mud at Rebecca Pond in Kanata.
At about 3 p.m. on May 16, Ottawa Fire Services took a call from a man who said his daughter had been fishing from a plastic culvert when she lost her balance and fell into the pond. The caller said she had become stuck waist-deep and was sinking deeper each time she tried to move.
The woman’s father met fire crews at the entrance to a trail near the intersection of Old Second Line Road and Klondike Road, and from there they advanced 400 metres along the trail before locating the woman.
According to a news release, firefighters confirmed the woman’s left leg was trapped in the mud up to her hip, and a pike pole was used to stabilize her while crews dug around her leg to get it free.
By 3:16 p.m., she had been lifted out of the mud, uninjured.
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