Woman stuck on rock calls 911 for rescue
Published: November 3, 2005
Firefighters rescued a woman who got stuck trying to climb a hill in a city park Wednesday and police promptly arrested her.
The woman, whom firefighters did not immediately identify, was climbing East Rock, Fire Chief Michael Grant said. She called 911 from her cell phone.
“Every spring and every fall we always take someone off either East Rock or West Rock,” Grant said. “They hike or do whatever they do and they get stuck.”
Firefighters rappelled down the side of the hill, which is 359 feet high at its peak, and rescued the woman, who was 37.
“It was a good rescue,” Grant said.
Nobody was injured, but police spokesman Bonnie Winchester said the woman was charged with endangering the four firefighters who rescued her.
She was also charged with violating an ordinance prohibiting people from climbing the hill.
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