POINT TOWNSHIP, NORTUMBERLAND COUNTY — Two personnel from the Americus Hose Company found and saved a woman from drowning Tuesday. That unidentified woman was then taken to the hospital after she had jumped off a bridge, into the flood swollen Susquehanna River.Point Township Police Chief Josh VanKirk said the woman parked her car just off the Barry King Bridge on the Union/Snyder County side of the river, then walked onto the bridge, and jumped in. He said the river is high and fast, and the woman was carried nearly a mile downstream.
Kody Leisenring and Tyler Martin are credited with pulling the woman from the water. Point Township’s Tuckahoe Quick Response Squad was in on the rescue. The woman had suffered from exposure to the cold water, and was taken to Geisinger Medical Center. Police say no name is being disclosed at this time.
Chief VanKirk said they will follow up with the family and Geisinger. Tuckahoe QRS, Emergency Medical personnel from Americus in Sunbury, and Northumberland and Shamokin Dam police assisted.
