Several children were spotted today walking on the partially frozen lake. Parents are urged to remind children that despite it appearing frozen, the lake can actually have only a very thin layer of ice at the surface, giving it a frozen appearance.
Falling through the ice into the frigid water temperatures can prove fatal to young children. [TLS-MK/File photo]
my nephew fell in and had to get pulled out
Can prove fatal to anyone not only young children.
They used to drive a tractor over it to test. Then they’d allow all the kids on it.
Anyone who has lived in Lakewood for any length of time knows it hasrn’t been cold enough for lake to freeze. It takes over a week of below freezing for lake to be safe.
ice skating like in the old Lakewood
Remember the fun and crowds skating on the lake. No more!!
people watch your children !!! come on
I remember a few years ago reading a two (I think) brothers who tried to walk across the lake on a Shabbos and fell it when the ice broke. They tried to get back on the ice but it kept breaking. The older brother put the younger one on his back and swam, breaking the ice as he was going until he got to the shore. I still cry every time I think about it. Please don’t let your kids walk across the ice ever!!!
A lakewood mother
what on earth are children doing out alone anyway?