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Two firefighters involved in a New Jersey river rescue were themselves stranded when their boat went over a waterfall, but a state police helicopter crew was eventually able to pull the couple to safety.
No injuries were reported in any of Wednesday’s rescues in the Passaic River, authorities said.
Clifton firefighters were among the emergency services who helped three people trapped in two boats on the river at around 3pm when their lifeboat plunged over the falls at Dundee Dam in Clifton and into the river below. A third firefighter who was in the lifeboat managed to escape before it went over the falls, authorities said.
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A police helicopter crew rescued two firefighters whose boat had gone over a waterfall during a rescue in Clifton, New Jersey.
The State Police helicopter soon arrived and crews began to free the firefighters, who were trapped in the partially submerged boat in the river’s rapid current. The first rescue was done quickly as a rescuer fell about 100 feet to get one person to safety, but the second took a bit longer as rescuers had some difficulty reaching the second firefighter.
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The people who had helped the firefighters were part of a small team of contractors working on a construction project upriver, authorities said.
