Red Lake OPP are again reminding both motorists and fisherman using ice roads and ice access points to use extreme\u00a0caution. A warning was\u00a0given\u00a0by Red Lake OPP\u00a0to stay off the ice on St. Paul’s Bay (Red Lake) due to\u00a0reports of thin ice.<\/p>\n
However, despite this warning people are still attempting to access the ice. Once such person drove\u00a0their vehicle onto the ice and partially\u00a0broke through. The driver was not injured and the vehicle\u00a0will be removed. Red Lake OPP is asking people to stay off the ice on St. Paul’s Bay, due to\u00a0unsafe ice conditions. \u00a0\u00a0Police are also\u00a0reminding people to use extreme caution and ensure ice conditions are checked before attempting to access all\u00a0ice on\u00a0waterways especially in the spring thaw.<\/p>\n
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Mar 9, 2017 @ 00:36<\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday, March 8, 2017, the Red Lake OPP investigated two separate incidents where a motor vehicle broke through the ice on Red Lake.\u00a0Also 24 hours earlier the Red Lake OPP received a report of a snow machine breaking through the ice.<\/p>\n The vehicles did not break through the ice entirely and the members of the public involved in all three incidents were not injured.\u00a0However, police are urging the public to not drive a motor vehicle on the ice road at St. Paul’s Bay or on the ice road between Red Lake and Rahill Beach and to use caution while being on the frozen waterway of Red Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Red Lake OPP are again reminding both motorists and fisherman using ice roads and ice access points to use extreme\u00a0caution. A warning was\u00a0given\u00a0by Red Lake OPP\u00a0to stay off the ice on St. Paul’s Bay (Red Lake) due to\u00a0reports of thin ice. However, despite this warning people are still attempting to access the ice. Once such …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,36],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","category-news","tag-ice-conditions"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 17:53:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}