Mother Of Two Dies After Falling Through The Ice In Colorado

Leslie Webster fell through thin ice into a pond in Lakewood this past Sunday and passed on this Tuesday.

She was walking her dog home on campus at midday when both of them fell through the ice on Woody’s pond.

A distress call was put out at 12:27 p.m to the West Metro Fire Rescue, and it took the crews six minutes to get to the pond and two to get her out of the water.

Rescue crews arrived at 3800 South Pierce at 12.30 p.m. after the woman’s husband saw his wife and their dog fall through the ice.

Ronda Scholting, a spokesperson for West Metro, claimed the crews had some issues with the rescue because of the conditions on the water.

She described the ice as about two inches thick, but it was reportedly not solid. It was slushy in some areas and solid in other places.

The young woman was a kindergarten teacher at Colorado Academy.

The Colorado Academy head of school, Mike Davis, stated Webster fought for her life and struggled through several surgeries happening over the days since the accident, but finally succumbed.

She leaves behind her husband and two daughters. Webster had been a teacher at the Colorado Academy since 2009.

It is not yet clear why Webster and the dog were on the ice, though West Metro Fire Rescue issued a public statement reminding people not to chase their dogs onto the ice and instead call 911 to get assistance.

There is no word concerning the dog’s condition as yet, though. In December, though, two dogs died in separate incidents after they fell through the ice within the metro area.

Unfortunately, though, it is not an isolated incident as two teens recently died as well after they fell through thin ice in late January.

One of them, a 15-year-old identified as David Tillburg, was pronounced dead at Newark University Hospital after he was removed from the pond. A second teen was successfully rescued by the Carteret Fire Department.

In a separate incident, another teen died after three of them fell through the ice at the Civic Center in East Brunswick.

In this case, paramedics formed a human chain to try and pull the teen from the water. The police worked for almost an hour to try and save the teen; however, he slipped under the ice.

Before then, the others had managed to pull themselves from the ice-cold water and call emergency services to come and assist.