Crime & Safety
Woman Falls Off Paddleboard, Impaled On Mooring Anchor
Firefighters needed to use extrication tools to save the woman, who was 50 feet offshore, police say.
CUTCHOGUE, NY — A Babylon woman fell off her paddleboard and was impaled on an anchor in the Peconic Bay Tuesday night, police said.
According to Southold Town Police, the incident took place at 6:50 p.m. when Brenda Mayo, 58, fell from the paddleboard off Nassau Point in Cutchogue and was impaled on a mushroom mooring anchor that was submerged beneath the surface of the water, about 50 feet from shore.
The Cutchogue Fire Department and Southold Town police responded.
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Mayo suffered an injury to her leg that required firefighters to utilize extrication tools to remove her from the water, police said.
She was transported by a Cutchogue Fire Department vessel to the New Suffolk boat ramp where she was transferred to an ambulance for transport to a waiting Suffolk County Police medivac helicopter that flew her to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment, police said.
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