From CNN (reproduced below):
The woman is lifted on a rescue basket to safety.
Firefighters rescue woman from brink of Niagara Falls
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Posted: 10:21 AM EST (1521 GMT)
(CNN) — Only 100 feet from the brink of Niagara Falls, rescue teams late Monday afternoon kept a woman from plunging over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and a likely death.
Shortly after 4:30 p.m., Niagara Parks Police were told of a woman floating in the Niagara River, several hundred yards from the falls, a police statement said.
The woman grabbed onto a throw-rope police tossed down the icy banks of the river.
Fred Hall of the Niagara Falls, Ontario, Fire Department was the first rescue worker to reach her.
“All the way down, I just kept saying: ‘I’m coming. I’m coming. Just hang on, hang on,’” Hall said.
Within an hour, the woman was lifted on a rescue basket to safety, trembling from the cold and slipping in and out of consciousness from hypothermia.
“There is no foul play suspected in relation to this incident and it appears that the fifty-year old woman entered the river of her own free will,” the police statement said.
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