body camera footage<\/a> released by the NYPD shows.<\/p>\nThe responders tugged the woman back onto dry land using a rope hitched to the preserver. <\/p>\n
Halfway through the water rescue, one officer spotted a small, slow-moving speck in his peripheral.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cat! The cat!\u201d the officer shouted as he pointed to the white feline, who was drifting closer to the shore.<\/p>\n
The woman is in stable condition at a local hospital, according to the NYPD. NYPD<\/p>\n
The cat is also on the mend. NYPD<\/p>\n
One responder broke away from the group to nab the frigid feline while the rest hauled the woman onto dry land.<\/p>\n
An officer helped the woman take a few steps on the sand before she collapsed in a fit of sobs. She lay limp on her back, overwhelmed by exhaustion and fear.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened? Are you okay? You\u2019re okay,\u201d one officer tried to console as the woman blubbered something unintelligible. <\/p>\n
She was taken away on a stretcher and is in stable condition at a local hospital, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
The cat is also on the mend. The NYPD shared a picture of the good-natured pet swaddled in a towel. <\/p>\n
Officials are still investigating the situation. It\u2019s not immediately clear how the woman and her cat wound up in the river in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers across three New York City departments banded together to rescue a woman and her cat who were…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,29877,6525,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,242362,4747,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-776767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn-bridge","10":"tag-fdny","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-police-body-cameras","20":"tag-rescue","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116526463592247859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}