scubajay1153, first and foremost I appreciate what you do and the risks you take, and as I stated before I'm not second guessing the decision to do this as I wasn't there and its not my call. I also know you all will be coming to help should I go through, but if you don't mind I may not wait for you.
My point with the "what if someone went through at Opechee" wasn't that the LFD couldn't handle other calls during this rescue, but could you have handled another ice rescue?
My point in all this is the same point I have with sleds that skim open water and drunk drivers. If someone makes a stupid decision to do something that the majority of people see as an extremely dangerous thing, then I have very little interest in risking others lives and wasting resources to save them. Again, I'm not second guessing this call, it wasn't mine. I just don't want to hear anyone praise this decision and then complain about what a waste of taxpayers dollars a $50K air conditioned dog cage was for the M'boro PD's pooch.