JANESVILLE, Wis. — First responders rescued a woman from the Rock River in Janesville Thursday afternoon.
In a news release, the Janesville Fire Department said crews were called to the Centerway bridge around 1:40 p.m. for a report of a woman clinging to a safety cable under the bridge. Police officers who got to the scene first dropped the 63-year-old woman a rope, which kept her in place until firefighters could give her a life jacket.
A short time later, a fire department boat pulled up and rescued the woman.
An ambulance took the woman to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The release did not say how the woman ended up in the water.
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