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Crookston, Minn.

County worker fired for sinking snowplow

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(AP) - A Polk County employee who accidentally sank a county loader into an icy river in Crookston has been fired.

Mike Raymond tells the Grand Forks Herald that he got a letter telling him he was fired after 28 years with the Polk County Highway Department.

Department head Richard Sanders says Raymond was a good employee but that he clearly violated the department's work rules.

Raymond was supposed to be plowing county parking lots early Monday when he instead started clearing snow on a boat landing used by ice fishermen on the Red Lake River. His John Deere loader slid down the landing and broke through the river ice.

Sanders says fixing the loader will cost thousands of dollars in parts and labor. Meanwhile, Raymond says he's not sure what he's going to do.

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Information from: Grand Forks Herald, http://www.grandforksherald.com

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)