In the early hours of December 31, 2021, The Pas RCMP received a report that a truck was stuck on Clearwater Lake.
The three males inside were heading out to do some ice fishing when their truck broke down which caused them to become stranded and ill-equipped for the plummeting temperatures. The temperature at the time with the wind chill was -38.
The exact location of the stranded fishermen was unknown at the time and it was determined that a search and rescue team – consisting of four RCMP officers, an off-duty paramedic, and a conservation officer – would attempt to locate the missing males, two 18-year-olds and one 19-year-old, from Steinbach.
After searching a large area of Clearwater Lake, they were located in the northwest corner and transported back to safety.
The three males as well as some of the searchers suffered minor injuries due to the extreme cold.
