CT Crews Perform High-Angle Rescue to Save Woman

Richard Chumney

The Hour, Norwalk, Conn.

(TNS)

Jan. 16—TORRINGTON — Emergency crews rescued a 55-year-old woman who suffered life-threatening injuries Monday after she fell more than 25 feet off a Norfolk Road bridge into a canal, officials said

Officials responded around 3:45 p.m. to the narrow canal that links the Reuben Hart Reservoir to the nearby Hall Meadow Brook Reservoir due to a report about a person injured in a fall, according to Paul Copleman, a spokesperson for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

After arriving on the scene, firefighters then performed a "high angle rescue" using ropes to pull the injured woman back onto the two-lane bridge. The rescue effort took about 25 minutes, according to a Facebook post by the Torrington Fire Department.

Copleman said the woman received medical treatment on the scene before being flown by helicopter to Hartford Hospital. He said DEEP's environmental conservation police are investigating the incident.

The rescue effort unfolded just south of the John A. Minetto State Park. The canal connecting the two reservoirs runs under Norwalk Road and is about 1,200 feet in length, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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