Thomas Braithwaite, a water operator in Brigham City, Utah, usually checks the Mantua Reservoir at 6 a.m. on his daily route. Not so on Nov. 29. On that day, Braithwaite was three hours late, which ended up making all the difference for a 32-year-old woman who had fallen through the reservoir’s thin ice.The woman had been out walking with her two dogs when the dogs went onto the ice and fell in. She went after them, and also fell in.“She got extremely lucky,” says Brad Nelson, an officer with the Mantua Police Department, in a FOX 13 report.The remote area
