Trapped in Freezing Water, Woman 'Lucky' to be Alive
Two firefighters rescue woman after she drove into Lake Hopatcong.
NORTH JERSEY -- The woman who drove her car into a lake Thursday night may not have survived if it wasn't for the two rescuers' quick response and her stroke of luck that night. The two Hopatcong firefighters who saved the woman—whose identity police have not released—said she's "lucky" to be alive after being trapped in her car in the freezing cold Lake Hopatcong for at least 15 minutes after hitting a guard rail. When the two rescuers, Billy Long and Robert Tallaksen, first arrived to the scene on Hopatcong Street they saw the car on its side in the water, unsure of the woman's condition. "At first, I thought it was a good possibility that she wouldn't be alive because more than three quarters of her car was submerged," Tallaksen said. …
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justaresident
10:57 am on Monday, November 26, 2012
What is wrong with this picture? We all know that if this was any one of us our names and details of the accident would have been published in an instant for everyone else to read about. Who is this person and what makes them so special?? They are apparently very well connected to keep their name out of the press, which tells us that either they are a public figure or they know someone who is … more ›