A brave paramedic FDNY yesterday afternoon, December 30, plunged into the icy Hudsonto save man.
As reported by the NY Post, 40-year-old Northern O’shaughnessy was driving with his partner on the West Side Highway when he noticed police near the river at Harrison and West Streets. The man realized that the police might need help.
As it turned out, the water was a man. The cops already threw him a lifeline, but drowning was obviously too weak to grasp it.
When Northern decided to climb into the water. He spent in the icy waters of the Hudson, about 10 minutes.
«In the first two seconds I felt the searing cold,» says the paramedic. «But after 30 seconds I realized that my hands and legs almost don’t work».
Drowning was beginning to lose consciousness, he’s obviously got severe hypothermia, but O’shaughnessy rescued man was taken to hospital in a stable condition. It is unclear just how he ended up in the water.
Despite the salvation of man, the paramedic says that he does not consider himself a hero. «Today I was just a man.»
By the way, this is not the first time that the Northern O’shaughnessy, originally from Ireland, comes heroically. In 2015, he pulled out of the Hudson woman who jumped into the water, and in 2014, he helped the drunk lady who fell between metro cars in 49th Street Station.
