Township of Langley firefighters used a borrowed boat to rescue a man after his mini-tugboat got stuck in the ice on the Fraser River near 208 Street and Louie Crescent around noon today.
The firefighters from the Walnut Grove fire station attached a rope to a small aluminum skiff and shoved it across the ice, then pulled it back with the mini-tug operator inside.
The Coast Guard had declined to attend the scene and it would have taken the RCMP hovercraft about an hour and a half to get there, the fire department said.
The man was not injured.
