(KNSI) — Three rescue squad members are expected to be OK after their hovercraft tipped during a training exercise.
Around 1:15 on Sunday afternoon, dispatchers for a 911 call about a boat upside down with people in the water on Green Lake near Spicer.
The Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office says the hovercraft drove off the ice and onto open water at an angle and flipped.
Everyone on the hovercraft got out from under the boat before help arrived. All three rescue squad members were taken to the hospital in Willmar with minor injuries. The crash is under investigation.
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