Close call. (The Goodness of America).Three adults and two children were in a 17-foot boat on Lake Delta in Rome, New York Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 34,950 at the 2000 census. It is in New York's 24th congressional district. The city is named after the Italian city of Rome. , on June 28, 2001, when the boat's engine suddenly stalled. During attempts to restart it, the current began drawing the craft toward the spillway spillway, n a channel or passageway through which food escapes from the occlusal surfaces of the teeth during mastication. The occlusal, developmental, and supplemental grooves, as well as the incisal, occlusal, labial, buccal, and lingual embrasures, of a dam with a 60-foot drop to the river below. From a quarter-mile away, 27-year-old Robert B. Keane of Rome, and friend David M. Cirasuolo, 34, of New York Mills New York Mills may refer to:
adj. 1. Deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict. 2. Mad; insane. [Middle English, alteration of distract, past participle of distracten, passengers on the disabled boat jumped into the lake. Keane and Cirasuolo rescued the two children, but two of the adults clung to the crippled crip·ple n. 1. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple. 2. A damaged or defective object or device. tr.v. boat, lodged against the spillway. Keane and Cirasuolo maneuvered close and managed to save one before their own boat struck the disabled vessel and itself became immobilized against the spillway. Keane was able to free it, but after rescuing the other person it again became bound up by the spillway. Another boat soon arrived on the scene. The third adult, still treading water some distance from the spillway, connected a line between that boat and Keane's boat, after which the new arrival towed the Keane craft away from the spillway to open water. Soon, all five potential victims and their rescuers were safely ashore. On May 2nd of this year, Keane and Cirasuolo were each awarded the Carnegie Medal, given by the Carnegie Hero Fund The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, also known as Carnegie Hero Fund, was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of Commission to persons who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving, or attempting to save, the lives of others. |
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