“My legs are broken,” a woman who jumped from the George Washington Bridge in a failed suicide told Scott Koen of Rutherford before he helped pluck her from the Hudson River on Tuesday.
Koen — whose boat has been used for rescues that included “Miracle on the Hudson” Flight 1549 — had taken members of New Square Hatzalah and Monsey Chavirim to search for the body of a Rockland County man who jumped last week.
“They held the ceremony where they cast bread on the water,” he told Daily Voice. “The bread is supposed to go where the body is. But the tide was coming in and took it north.”
Sonar showed something near a buoy, but it was nothing, said Koen, who is a Rutherford 2nd assistant fire chief.
Two divers had resurfaced there when one saw the woman plunge more than 200 feet. READ MORE….
Scott Koen at the helm of the Lt. Michael T. Murphy as responders tend to jumper (Daily Voice photo)
