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JENKINS TOWNSHIP — One man is dead and a woman was injured after the all-terrain vehicle they were riding plunged through a sheet of thin ice early Saturday afternoon.
Steven Kenzakoski, 47, of Jenkins Township was pronounced dead at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital after rescue teams pulled him from the water at the Mill Creek Reservoir on Bald Mountain Road.
Kenzakoski and a female passenger were attempting to ride an ATV across the reservoir, which was covered with a thin layer of ice, when they fell into the water. The woman made it to shore on her own, and was also treated at Geisinger.
Due to the unreliable terrain and the remote location of the incident, rescue teams had a hard time getting to Kenzakoski.
According to the coroner’s office, the death was accidental, and the cause was cardiac arrest due to drowning. There will be no autopsy performed.