"As soon as I saw it start separating, I yelled at everybody, trying to tell everybody to get off the ice," Jay Fountain told K2 Radio News. "At that point, it had been like, maybe three minutes and it was already way too far. Nobody could get off."
A statement from the Casper- Natrona County Health Department said that harmful cyanobacterial blooms (HCB's) pose a risk to humans, pets, and livestock.