Palisades Parkway, NJ – Members of the New York Police Department have used a helicopter to rescue a hiker with a broken ankle from a cliff near the Hudson River in New Jersey.
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Police say the injured woman was found stranded on a cliff about 200 feet from the ground in Alpine, New Jersey, about 15 miles northwest of Manhattan. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Members of the NYPD Aviation Unit flew a helicopter alongside the steep cliff and hovered about 50 feet above the woman while an officer was lowered to her. She was placed in a rescue basket and taken to Nyack Hospital, where she is in stable condition with a broken left ankle.
Seven members of the Aviation Unit participated in the rescue.
Pretty cool
What is the charge for this ????
Another broken ankle? Recently Ann Curry was rescued by a troop of Boy Scouts when she got an broken ankle hiking in Harriman State Park. Don’t go hiking in these remote places Yidden!