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Ottawa firefighters have confirmed to have rescued four elderly people from the Ottawa River almost half an hour into the New Year. According to the officials, a 911 call alerted them about the situation at around 12:37 a.m. on New Year’s Day, after which rescue officials headed immediately to rescue people stranded in a boat behind the Supreme Court of Canada in downtown Ottawa.
Ottawa Fire Service spokesperson, Marc Messier, said that all four people were “very lucky people” to be found by two water and ice rescue units, who located two men and two women in their 20s in a canoe clinging to an ice shelf. According to the officials, the boat was being rigorously pulled downstream by the fast-moving currents. He said that “the currents are very strong there and dangerous at any time,” adding that “but with the thaw last week and the rains the current is even stronger than usual.”
Officials said that the first rescue boat aimed to find the stranded paddlers in hopes to get them on a stable platform, whereas the rest of the boats aimed to find the stranded ferry and get it ashore and keep crews safe. Officials first brought the two women ashore, who received help from the paramedics until the remaining two men arrived. Messier stated that “fortunately, none of them were wet otherwise hypothermia would have been a factor and it would have become an even more complicated rescue” adding that “none of them had life jackets on. They were very lucky.”
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