20 People Rescued From Ice Floe in Lake Erie, Coast Guard Says

The U.S. coast guard participate in an exercise of the North Pacific Coast Guard Forum in Busan, South Korea, on June 8, 2006. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

PORT CLINTON, Ohio—Twenty people were rescued from an ice floe in Lake Erie, the Coast Guard said Monday.

The Coast Guard’s Ninth District Great Lakes station said it received a report about 10:20 a.m. that the people were stuck on a mile-long floe about a half-mile off Catawba Island State Park near Port Clinton in Ohio.