PORT JERVIS – A 37-year-old Port Jervis woman fell approximately 25 feet to a rocky dirt area near the Mid-Delaware Bridge just after 7 p.m. Thursday. The temperature was just 40 degrees and the impact area is very steep, dark, and overgrown.
Fortunately, a man heard the victim’s cries for help from across the river and investigated to report a location. Once the injured woman was spotted, he placed a call to 9-1-1 for help.
Port Jervis Police Department was among immediate responders to the scene with officers confirming the woman as being from Port Jervis and having fallen down the steep New York side embankment along the Delaware River.
A water rescue call was quickly placed to request the Battalion 8 Water Operations Team to the scene. The team treated and secured the injured woman for transport to West End Beach by boat. From there, she was airlifted by Medivac to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla for treatment.
Along with Port Jervis Police, Port Jervis, Huguenot, Westfall, Matamoras, and Sparrowbush Fire Departments and Port Jervis Volunteer Ambulance Corps assisted on the scene.
The injured woman was awake and verbal but expressing a great deal of pain as she was cared for on scene and transported to the waiting Medivac. The extent of her injuries, other than a suspected compound fracture of a leg, was unknown. The cause of the fall was also not immediately known.
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