At 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13, the Stearns County Emergency Communications Center received a call from someone near the address of 301 Montrose Road in St. Cloud. The caller reported that there was a man located on an island in the Mississippi River asking for help because his boat had gotten away from him and proceeded down river. The St. Cloud Fire Department was dispatched to the area with their boat to assist.
A short time later, another call came in from the man’s son, who had also been with him on the island. He reported that his dad had gone into the water to attempt to retrieve their boat, but his dad went too far down river, and he couldn’t see him or the boat anymore. Additional boats from the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office and the St. Cloud Fire Department were dispatched to the area. St. Cloud Fire located the man on another island and transported both men and the boat back to the access. No one was injured in the incident.