Emergency responders have resumed looking for two teen boys who may have fallen through a frozen NJ lake last night. Police say that screams were heard around 6:20 p.m. at Budd Lake in Mount Olive, and the father of one of the teens told 1010 WINS that his son may have taken his bike on the ice to rescue the other teen, "There were people saying Clyde was out there and he saw the kid go through the ice and Clyde went to save him on his bicycle and then they both went in. And then people from the shore heard them screaming."
A nearby resident, Wililam Hardy, said he heard screams for help so he called the police. The Star-Ledger reports that he then he got a flashlight and "went out onto the lake, which had not yet fully frozen over. With his first step the ice cracked, but solidified as he walked towards what Hardy described as a blue light in a dark expanse and two people screaming for help." Hardy said, "It was a blue light, maybe a cell phone light, I could see that... I could hear at least two voices talking to me." The voices screamed, "Please help me, I don’t want to die." Hardy says "he walked nearly 700 feet, but the ice began to weaken and crack with each step and he stopped about a hundred feet from the light."
Helicopters were at the scene, trying to light up the area near the lake to aid the search, as responders broke through ice to find the boys. Mount Olive Mayor Robert Greenbaum, who noted that others had been on the lake, said, "It's a terrible thing to have to deal with situations where there are families that don't know where their children are or possibly don't know what's happened to them. So it's troubling."
