The bitterly cold weather that has persisted for the last month or so, coupled with last weekend’s first significant snowfall of the year, has created a winter wonderland of sorts in the resort area with frozen ponds, creeks, canals and even large areas of the bay, but danger lurks beneath the apparently frozen surface. The Ocean City Fire Department has been training firefighters and rescue personnel to handle possible thin ice emergencies for the last week such as the one shown here.