Afloat on an ice slab

Man saved from floating ice slab on the Mississippi

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The "kid" was a 19-year-old Anoka man who was taking an unwelcome ride on a wide, smooth slab of ice that had broken off as he stood on it along the shoreline somewhere upriver, according to authorities in Anoka.

By the time the ice slab -- with the man standing atop it very gingerly -- reached the Hwy. 169 bridge, three firefighters who entered the fast-moving river were able to pull the slab toward shore and rescue the man.