We have had some warmer temps and they will stay that way for the next week so PLEASE BE CAREFUL...............................
Others on the ice had found Hack's body and notified authorities around 4 p.m., reported First Class Petty Officer Danny Graves.
An airboat and a helicopter from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit were used in the search. Bay County Sheriff's deputies and personnel from the Pinconning-Fraser Fire Department assisted at the scene.
Graves cautioned snowmobilers and fishermen to avoid the ice for the time being, due to its current thin conditions.
UPDATE: Authorities identify body found Friday on Saginaw Bay
By Cole Waterman | The Bay City Times
January 16, 2010, 3:15PM
Bay County Sheriff's deputies have named Robert F. Hack, 60, of Bay City, as the dead man found dead yesterday on the Saginaw Bay.
Hack had left his home earlier Friday morning and had appeared to have been ice fishing, deputies report. Shortly after 5 p.m., following nearly an hour-long
search, personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard Station Saginaw River in Essexville found Hack half submerged in broken ice about two miles east of Linwood. A
cause of death is not being released at this time.
Others on the ice had found Hack's body and notified authorities around 4 p.m., reported First Class Petty Officer Danny Graves.
An airboat and a helicopter from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit were used in the search. Bay County Sheriff's deputies and personnel from the Pinconning-Fraser Fire Department assisted at the scene.
Graves cautioned snowmobilers and fishermen to avoid the ice for the time being, due to its current thin conditions.
