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Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service with help from Winnipeg Police Air-1 rescued a woman trapped by open water on the Red River.
On Saturday, April 14, 2018, Police received a call about a woman screaming along the banks of the Red River in the 3400 block of Pembina Highway.
Officers determined the yelling was from someone in the river on the opposite bank from them and called in Air-1 to help locate her.
Using a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) camera and their night sun spotlight they were able to locate the woman and direct the WFPS water rescue unit to her clinging to a tree.
The woman was taken to hospital as a precaution but she did not require medical treatment.
Police are not sure what caused her to be on the river but suspect that she may have been trying to cross and did not realize the condition of the ice. Police public information officer Rob Carver said that at one point prior to the rescue the woman had been in the water.
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