Jogger Helps Rescue Man who Jumped into Icy Waters to Save His Dog.

Harrowing ordeal as man plunges into icy water to save dog

Penny EimsDog News Examiner

 Screen shot via NBC Chicago

February 5, 2014

A life and death struggle took place in Montrose Harbor, Ill., on Tuesday night after a man made a desperate attempt to save his dog from drowning in Lake Michigan, reported Wednesday's NBC Chicago News.
The man, whose name has not been released, had broken through the layer of ice on the frigid lake after his dog fell in and he tried to retrieve him.
By the time that good Samaritans were on the scene, only the man's head was above the bitterly cold water.
Help for the man came from Adam Dominik, a jogger who happened to be in the area.
Dominik stated:

His face was peering out. He was completely submerged, except for his face,
I knew I had about two or three minutes before hypothermia set in and he went under, so I had Lynn keep talking to him and keep his spirits up.

Dominik sprang into action, finding a rope and working to pull the man towards shore.
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Jogger Helps Rescue Man, Dog From Icy Water

By Dick Johnson

|  Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014  |  Updated 11:06 AM CST

A passing jogger helped rescue a man who attempted to save his pet poodle from icy Lake Michigan Tuesday, just south of Montrose Harbor.

The man was walking with three poodles at about 5:15 p.m. when one of the dogs ran around a retaining wall onto the ice and fell in. The owner went after him and fell in the water as well.

Adam Dominik was jogging near the bird sanctuary when he heard dogs barking and ran to the scene.

A cross-country skier named Lynn Gerhard was already there, and was in the process of calling 911.

"His face was peering out. He was completely submerged, except for his face," Dominik said. "I knew I had about two or three minutes before hypothermia set in and he went under, so I had Lynn keep talking to him and keep his spirits up."

Dominik says he found a yellow twine rope near the bird sanctuary and attempted to pull the man out, who was 10 feet away, below the ice-encased retaining wall.

"At first I threw the rope over him but the dog was kind of pulling on him with his weight pushing him under the water," Dominik said. "He kept saying, 'Save the dog first,' I kept saying, 'No, we're going to save your life first and then the dog, your life is more important,' but he insisted on pulling up the dog first."

Dominik (pictured, right) managed to pull the man and the dog closer to the shoreline, and that's when members of the Chicago Police Department Marine Unit and the fire department arrived and finished the job.

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