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Tag: water rescue

07.24.2020 News

A light in the dark: five rescued off sinking speed boat by Cross Sound Ferry

Capt. Mike Ward pulled out of Orient at 8 p.m. Sunday aboard the Cape Henlopen, headed for New London. Not far out, near the Plum Island buoy, he saw...

11.23.2019 Police

Orient firefighters honored for helping save three men in 2018 water rescue

Orient Fire Department members Richard Gillooly and Angel Medina were awarded the Bronze Medal of Valor by the Vocational Educational and Extension Board of Suffolk County for their heroism...

07.06.2019 Police

Cops: Greenport man safely swims to shore after tossed from boat

A Greenport man safely swam to shore after a wave rocked his 17-foot boat, tossing him into the water and leaving the boat circling unmanned in Southold Bay near...

07.05.2019 Police

Lifeguard, boater assist woman in distress at Breakwater Beach

A local lifeguard and a civilian boater are being credited with coming to the aid of a woman in distress at Breakwater Beach in Mattituck Friday afternoon.

03.11.2019 Police

Coast Guard rescues pair of fishermen off Fishers Island Sunday

 Crewmembers from Coast Guard Station New London rescued two fishermen after they abandoned a sinking commercial fishing vessel near Fishers Island Sunday morning.

05.02.2018 Police

Rescuers who saved three men last month honored by Coast Guard

Members of the Orient Fire Department, Southold Town Police Department and Plum Island ferry were honored Tuesday by the U.S. Coast Guard for their role in a water rescue...

04.21.2018 Editorials

Editorial: Over a two-day period, lives were saved

On Saturday evening, with dusk soon to arrive, the wind rising and temperatures dropping, rescuers put their own lives on the line to save three men whose boat, a...

04.19.2018 Police

Plum Island ferry, Orient firefighters pulled off water rescue in rough conditions

On a cold and blustery evening Saturday, a group of determined rescuers saved three men whose boat had sunk in Plum Gut, pulling one of them — who showed...

03.20.2018 Community

County officials hail Shelter Island ferry crew for saving a life

The Suffolk County Legislature recognized a North ferry captain and crew who saved the life of a boater who fell into the freezing water in December. Captain Lance Willumsen...

12.15.2017 Community

North Ferry crew saves man from waters off Shelter Island

A crew on the North Ferry boat, the Menantic, saved a man from drowning Friday morning in the frigid waters off Crescent Beach on Shelter Island. 

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