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FAR ROCKAWAY, N.Y.– Three radical were rescued from the frozen waters disconnected Far Rockaway successful Queens connected Friday erstwhile they fell done ice.
Video from the New York Police Department shows the rescue happening, arsenic members of the Scuba Team, Aviation Unit, Emergency Service Unit and the New York City Fire Department responded.
In the video, a rescuer lays level retired crossed the ice, moving to propulsion a idiosyncratic from the water.
A rescue subordinate lays level connected the crystal to effort and propulsion the idiosyncratic out.
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As they tried to bash so, the crystal continued breaking, not allowing the idiosyncratic to ascent out.
After a fewer moments, the rescuer sits up, allowing themselves to interruption done the crystal and drawback clasp of the idiosyncratic successful the water.
The rescuer gets into the h2o to clasp onto the person.
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The adjacent clip shows different subordinate of the rescue squad crawling up to the brace successful the h2o and helping them beryllium pulled retired by a helicopter.
Another portion of the video shows the 2nd h2o rescue happening, arsenic a rescuer and the idiosyncratic were pulled from the h2o by a helicopter.
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A rescuer repels with a idiosyncratic pulled from crystal to adust land.
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The last clip of the video shows everyone connected the snow-covered enactment moving to get the radical lukewarm and dry.
"No substance the conditions, our officers are ever acceptable to reply the call," NYPD News said successful a societal media station astir the rescue.
Crews effort to adust and lukewarm the 3 radical pulled from the ice.
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The section warned radical to enactment distant from icy bodies of h2o and enactment wrong arsenic unsafe acold wallops the Northeast this weekend.
An Extreme Cold Warning is successful effect starting Saturday nighttime arsenic temperatures driblet into the azygous digits. Wind chills volition person the portion feeling similar beneath zero by Sunday.
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