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HEROES: Responders Rescue Victim Who Fell 40 Feet Down Palisades HEROES: Responders Rescue Victim Who Fell 40 Feet Down Palisades
Heroes: Responders Rescue Victim Who Fell 40 Feet Down Palisades Palisades Interstate Parkway police rescued a victim who fell 40 feet down the cliffs above the Hudson River on Saturday. The 43-year-old Brooklyn man was wearing sneakers with no treads when he slipped from an area known as Peanut Leap Falls and rolled down the mountain at the Rockland County border in Alpine shortly before 11:30 a.m., PIP Police Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said. Arriving by boat on the Hudson River, members of the department's Marine Services Bureau climbed 100 or so feet up the steep slope to the spot where the victim had fallen, Walter said. They gave immediate …