We would like to thank all the public safety agencies who responded to assist the person who jumped into the Flatrock River earlier today. Your actions saved a life. #PoliceFireEmsWorkingTogether pic.twitter.com/MCx1XcfCH7
— Columbus IN Police (@Columbus_Police) January 18, 2019
11 a.m. UPDATE:
Columbus police and firefighters saved the life of a Columbus woman who jumped off the Third Street bridge in downtown Columbus just as a police officer arrived to check on her.
First responders converged on the Water Street boat ramp just beyond the Second Street bridge just before 9 a.m. Friday, where the woman was reportedly in the center of the river moving downstream.
Columbus firefighter Daniel Pinnow, who works out of Columbus Fire Station 3, was in training at the downtown station when the call came through, said Capt. Mike Wilson, fire department spokesman.
Pinnow donned an ice rescue shut and swam out into the river to rescue the woman, bringing her to shore near the Water Street ramp, where she was placed in an ambulance and taken to Columbus Regional Hospital, Wilson said.
The rescue operation took about seven minutes from the time the woman reportedly jumped from the Third Street bridge, which has traffic heading westbound out of the city.
9 A.M. UPDATE: Columbus police officers have rescued the woman from the river and she is in a boat being taken to shore downstream from the bridge near the Water Street boat ramp. She is being transported to Columbus Regional Hospital by ambulance.
ORIGINAL STORY
Columbus police and Indiana State Police are attempting to rescue a woman who jumped from the Third Street bridge in Columbus at 8:53 a.m. this morning.
Rescuers had located the woman in the river between the Second and Third Street bridges and were attempting to get a rope to her.
The Bartholomew Water Rescue Team is launching a boat in an effort to reach the woman.
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