Port Chester, Greenwich Police Save Man From Icy Byram River

PORT CHESTER, NY — Quick work and cooperation across state lines helped save the life of a man who didn't have much time left.

Shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, the Port Chester Police Department and the Greenwich Police Department received reports of a disturbance or someone in need of urgent help in the area of the Byram River.

Units from both jurisdictions worked hard to locate the person in trouble, from their respective sides of the river.

Port Chester police soon located a man in obvious distress in the water, clinging onto a dock.

Officers pulled the man, who was suffering from serious hypothermia, out of the water. He repeatedly told officers that someone else was in the water as well.

A search of the shoreline on both sides of the river, by the Port Chester Police Department, the Port Chester Fire Department, Westchester County police and Greenwich police turned up no sign of any other victims in the water.

The rescued man is being treated at a local trauma center and is expected to recover.

"With the assistance of the caller & Greenwich PD this incident ended as best as possible, with little time to spare," Port Chester police officials said in a social media post on Sunday. "Fortunately the victim was located and removed prior to any long term effects."