UPDATE 2:00 PM –

A close call at Pioneer Park after Kamloops Fire and Rescue crews rushed to the river to make a rescue.

Nina Sigloch saw the whole thing unfold just after 1:00 PM and says it began when a dog went into the river.

“The man was going across the ice to what looked like a dog in the water, and I yelled for him not to but he didn’t stop so I yelled for people to call somebody or be ready to call somebody,” she said.

“Then he fell in as well, he sort of slipped into the ice. And then everybody who was up here a bunch of people got some stuff and managed to get him out.”

Sigloch says people nearby tried using dog leashes to make the rescue before resorting to using a quad rack to get the man and the dog out of the freezing waters.

Kamloops Fire Captain Sheldon Guertin says crews got there just as the man had been pulled out. He was conscious and walking at the time but needed to be treated for hypothermia.

Guertin says people need to very careful with the ice on the Thompson River.

“Around the edges of the water where the current is flowing, the ice is thin, and it’s not able to support weight,” Guertin said.

“I understand the Pioneer Park is a dog run loose free zone, you don’t have to have leashes. But people really have to exercise extreme caution in the area. There is open water.”

He says if your pet goes into the water to not try and rescue it and instead call the professionals.

The man had a second dog, but it did not fall into the water. Guertin says both dogs are fine.

ORIGINAL – 

Kamloops Fire and Rescue crews rushed to Pioneer Park this afternoon after a caller reported a person and a dog in the river “clinging to a chunk of ice.”

Crews arrived and pulled a man and a dog out of the river.

More information as we get it.