FDNY Crews Rescue Teen from Shaft on Bridge
New York Daily News
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A 16-year-old boy is in critical condition after falling 50 feet down a shaft on the Queensboro Bridge, authorties said Tuesday.
First responders rescued the victim, who was sufferening from hypothermia, from the shaft on the lower level of the Manhattan-bound side of the bridge about 9 p.m. Monday, an FDNY spokesman said. It wasn’t clear how long he had been down the shaft or how he got there.
Medics rushed the teen to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell in critical condition, FDNY officials said.
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