By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
THE manager of a town in Maine, according to officials, died after saving his 4-year-old son when he fell through a frozen pond Friday.
Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that Kevin Howell, 51, was walking with his son around 6:30 a.m. when they broke through Etna Pond.
Stonix News reports that Howell managed to get his son out of the water and told him to go get his mother.
After the boy ran home and told his mother what happened, she called 9-1-1, grabbed an anchor and rope and ran to the pond to help her husband.
She tied the rope on the shore but also fell through the ice, according to the sheriff’s office.
A detective in the area who had heard the 9-1-1 call responded and crawled across the treacherous ice, holding on to the rope as he went, and pulled the woman out.
However, there was no trace of Howell. Members of the Maine Warden Service and the Carmel Fire Department arrived, but they also could not find Howell.
Two Maine Warden Service divers went into the pond around 1:40 p.m. Friday and found Howell’s body a little before 2 p.m.
The Maine Warden Service told our source, NBC News, that Howell was the town manager there.
His office is responsible for oversight and management of town departments.
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