Man survives but dog can't be saved as truck sinks in Lake Minnetonka

Four deputies laid on the ice in a human chain to rescue a man after his truck went through the ice on Lake Minnetonka Wednesday night.

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office said that it got a report about 8:20 p.m. of a truck breaking through the ice near the Arcola Bridge.

Lt. Kent Vnuk of the department's Water Patrol unit says the man was heading to his fish house, which wasn't a posted thin-ice area.

The man escaped from the truck and got onto some nearby ice where neighbors heard him calling for help and called 911.

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The man was pulled from the ice and taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.

Vnuk said the man's dog couldn't be rescued from the truck.

The Sheriff's Office is investigating.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.