A 30-year-old woman from St. Louis was rescued from the Whirlpool Rapids below Niagara Falls Monday after she fell in while hiking along the shore with her fiance. State Parks Police say the woman, tried to reach down and touch the swirling waters.
WIBV television reports the woman was swept away in the current of the Niagara River near Devil’s Hole. The crew of a Whirlpool jet boat operating in the area saved the unidentified woman’s life. Upper Mountain Fire Chief Lee Casper said, “The jet boat was doing a normal tour, up to the rapids up there, saw her go in. They pulled her out of the water, brought her down to the Lewiston sand docks.” Casper said had the jet boat not been right there to scoop her up, it’s likely she would not have survived. It was an almost impossible rescue, but the passengers and crew of the jet boat pulled it off.
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