An eight-year-old autistic boy is back safe with his mother after being rescued off of thin ice by Milton firefighters earlier this week.
Battalion Chief Chris Lukas says emergency personnel were called to a retention pond behind the 900 block of East High Street Tuesday afternoon.
First responders found the child about 50 feet out on ice that was only an inch to an inch-and-a-half thick.
Lukas says firefighters wearing cold water rescue suits entered the water and were eventually able to get to the boy before he fell through the ice.
Lukas says the boy was evaluated by paramedics on scene and released to his mother. There were no reported injuries.
