HOUGHTON, MI-- A Michigan DNR officer has been honored for saving the life of a little boy on Little Day de Noc ice this past winter.
On February 5 Conservation Officer Patrick Hartsig was notified that a 10-year-old boy with special needs had run away from his Gladstone home and was last seen crossing the bay on the ice. Hartsig launched his snowmobile near Hunter’s Point and found the boy in his stocking feet about a mile out.
A former paramedic, Hartsig warmed the boy’s feet, then put his own boots, gloves, and helmet on the child and took him to the Gladstone State Police Post.
Hartsig was given the DNR’s Lifesaving Award during the regular meeting of the Natural Resources Commission in Houghton on Thursday.
