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2 people who were fishing are rescued from Delaware River, official says
Updated 12:24 PM;
Today 12:06 PM
Two people who were fishing were rescued May 1, 2021, from the Delaware River near Groundhog Lock in Williams Township.Google
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A man and a woman who were wearing waders and fishing Saturday evening in the Delaware River in Williams Township had to be rescued after they got caught up in the swift current, township fire Chief Jeff Murray said Monday.
One found their way to a rocky island while the other held onto a stump in the water that Murray estimated to be about 50 degrees. The entire rescue effort, near Groundhog Lock off Route 611, took an hour or less because there was concern about hypothermia, the fire chief said.
Paula Vogler
Special to Wicked Local
EASTON - If he had stayed with his first course of study, Fire Chief Kevin Partridge would have had a long career as an electrical engineer.
Instead, after starting as a volunteer firefighter in Swansea in 1984 and switching his major to fire science, Partridge, 55, is in the midst of a long fire safety career spanning over 35 years, the last nine of which have been spent serving as Easton’s chief.
“I had a friend who was looking into joining the volunteer fire department (in Swansea) and told me about it,” Partridge said. “One of the volunteers, who is now my brother-in-law, lived in our neighborhood. Once I got in Swansea, I took a whole bunch of firefighter classes.”