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HERO: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper HERO: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper
Hero: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper An off-duty Port Authority police officer out for a run rescued a suicidal woman who’d jumped into the East River Tuesday afternoon. PAPD Officer Eileen Fitzgerald was running along a path in Astoria Park in Queens when she saw a crowd gathered along the shore near the intersection of 20th Avenue and Shore Boulevard around 1:30 p.m., authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Fitzgerald dashed over, told a civilian to dial 911, then climbed down the rocks to the river, speaking to the woman the entire time, Rodrigues said. The woman said “she no longer wanted to live and to let her go,” R…

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by Jerry DeMarco