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Enfield Fire District - We Did It Again!

The Enfield Fire Department rescued a stranded boater in our stretch of the CT River yesterday evening.  The boater is a coach for a rowing team from Putney VT – serving as a scout patrolling downriver ahead of his college rowing team that started out Monday from VT and were making their way south to Long Island Sound.

When the coach didn’t show up at the next scheduled stop (the launch in our end of town) the college girls waited an hour then called for help.  We found the coach about a ½ mile from the launch, in his boat on which he had damaged the prop and was stuck in very shallow water.  With no other craft able to launch due to the low water conditions, we were first on scene, launched and retrieved both the coach and his boat with much appreciation from him and the team.

~ Paul Januszewski, Deputy Chief / Training Officer

 

 

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