Julie E. GreeneThe Herald-Mail1:361:36https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.495.1_en.html#goog_1259359484
DARGAN — Three duck hunters are OK after becomingstranded in their boat on an icy Potomac River for about two hours Saturday morning, emergency service officials said.
The call for the stranded hunters in a disabled boat downstream of the Dargan boat ramp came in shortly after 8 a.m., a Washington County 911 supervisor said.
Rescuers were able to bring the hunters ashore a little after 10 a.m., the 911 supervisor said.
The National Weather Service’s closest weather station to that area was to the north in Shepherdstown, where the air temperature was about 2 degrees at 8 a.m. and had risen to 13 degrees by 10 a.m., said meteorologist Connor Belak with the Baltimore/Washington forecast office. Winds were calm around that time so the station didn’t report wind chill readings, he said.
Potomac Valley Fire Co. Chief Roger Otzelberger Jr. said the…
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