Teen in hospital after being pulled from Oak Brook pond
Rescue divers spent more than an hour in an Oak Brook pond late Friday searching for a teenager beneath the icy water.
Crews from across DuPage County were called to the Forest Glen subdivision after someone reported seeing the teen go through the ice near a pedestrian bridge about 4:30 p.m., fire officials, police and neighbors said.
The teen was taken to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, where he was receiving medical attention, ABC 7 Chicago said. The hospital would not release the teen's condition.
Trish Orrito said she was inside her house around 4 p.m. when she saw a teen with dark hair wearing a dark jacket out on the pond.
"I saw him on the edge for about 20 seconds. He bent down to touch the ice, almost like he was testing it," she said.
She went to the door to yell at him to stay off the ice, but by then, she said he had already walked away. She left to take her son to tae kwon do lessons, and when she returned, the emergency crews were out by the pond.
Divers were breaking surface ice near where two ponds come together and are joined by a pedestrian bridge.
Brenda Porzel said the pond isn't particularly deep, only about three to four feet.