Central Park Pond rescue. Someone said they’d been doing a photo shoot. Now it’s a photo op. twitter.com/sarahrex/statu…
— Sarah Raymont (@sarahrex) February 5, 2013
Two people fell through the ice in Central Park around 59th Street and 6th Avenue Tuesday afternoon, and two rescue workers may have been injured getting them out.
The two young men, ages 20 and 19, fell through the ice around 2 p.m., the New York Post reported.
The Post says a park worker and a police officer who first showed up at the scene both had ropes, but they ropes were too short.
“‘The police officer threw his ring to the park employee so he could tie it together — and at that instant the police officer fell into the water near the edge and my co-worker who was beside him fell in,’ a park worker who witnessed the rescue said.
Without a long-enough rope, the employee closest to the victim started to return to the edge when “everything started crumbling around him and then he fell into the water too,” the worker said.
FDNY rescuers arrived minutes later.”
“Both people were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition,” a fire official told the New York Times. Two rescue workers were also taken to the hospital.
Another photo on Instagram appears to have been taken shortly before the people fell through.
Photo of the rescue scene courtesy of by Sarah Raymont.
Maybe the photo was taken after they fell through? Looks like NYPD and NYFD are both on the scene … Even the Instagram photographer calls it a “photo shoot” turned “photo op”
We weren’t clear initially in the post. The photo I refer to at the end is the one that’s linked, not the one at the top. Thanks. Avi
Ah! I see now, Avi. Very cool second photo! Thanks for clarifying! 🙂