Note to all Swimmers - Jamaica Bay is cold this time of the year!

Police and Medical Emergency First Responders on the Broad Channel Platform
Wednesday @ 11:15 am

I was parked outside the entrance to the Brad Channel "A" Train Station last Wednesday morning at 11 am waiting for my daughter to return from her half day of high school school mid term exams. Within the space of a few minutes I was blocked in by three N.Y.C.P.D. Emergency Service Trucks, four squad cars, two unmarked cars and at least three ambulances, the occupants of which all raced upsatirs to the station platform.

Apparently the alarm had been sounded when an African-American gentleman had been observed walking onto the trestle connecting Broad Channel and Rockaway whereupon he disrobed and jumped into the frigid waters of Jamaica Bay.

Less than ten minutes later, the individual had been pulled from the water, wrapped in blankets and was being attended to by EMT's prior to transport to a hospital.

One N.Y.C.P.D. Emergency Services officer was observed leaving the station, shaking his head, stating to nobody in particular, "You can't make this stuff up!"

It didn't pass without notice that our Broad Channel Vollies were the first medical responders on the scene.