Firefighters Rescue Woman From Rocks on Pa. Highway
Source The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
March 30-- An argument between mother and daughter turned into a rescue mission Thursday evening, briefly closing a northbound lane of the McDade Expressway while authorities rappelled to help a woman stuck near the top of a cliff.
Scranton Police Sgt. Mike Mayer said a 23-year-old Nicholson woman and her mother were driving home from an area hospital when they got into a heated argument. The mother pulled over just after 6 p.m. in an area known as the Notch on the expressway, where her daughter exited the vehicle, Sgt. Mayer said. The mother drove away to give her daughter a few moments alone, dialing 911 a few minutes later when she turned the vehicle around to find the young woman had climbed about 50 feet up the wall of rock, Sgt. Mayer said.
Patrolmen Chris Kaushas and Steve Carroll, a crisis intervention officer, were the first police officers on the scene, Sgt. Mayer said.
Members of the Scranton Fire Department Rescue Team rappelled down a wall of rocks to reach her about 6:30 p.m., said Scranton Fire Lt. Kelly Hopkins. The young woman was pulled up to the top of a cliff on Interstate 81 South and taken by ambulance to Geisinger Community Medical Center, Lt. Hopkins said.
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