Man jumps shirtless into frozen New York lake to rescue stranded dogs

A Yonkers man and his dog didn’t hesitate to jump into a frozen lake in Irvington to rescue two stranded dogs in need of help. Timofey Yuriev was walking his dog Kira last weekend at the O’Hara Nature Center when he noticed the older dogs crossing the lake on the ice. After he saw the dogs fall in, he said he knew help wouldn’t arrive fast enough so he took off most of his clothes and jumped in -- breaking the ice along as he went. Yuriev grew up in Kazakhstan and said his grandfather taught him to sw
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