GREENWICH, NY -- Police say a 12-year-old upstate New York boy has died after he and a friend were rescued from a large snow bank in Washington County.
Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell says the boys were playing in a snow mound on Rock Street while a Department of Public Works truck was plowing the area around the same time on Tuesday.
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Bell says a K-9 found one boy's sled after they were reported missing around 5 p.m.
A shoveling crew freed the first boy, who was unresponsive. He was rushed to Saratoga Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 10 p.m.
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The second boy was found about an hour later. He was conscious and alert.
It's unclear whether the plow buried the boys or if their snow fort collapsed.