NYPD officers swooped down in a helicopter to rescue an 83-year-old man who was stuck in a Staten Island marsh on Thursday, authorities said.
The elderly man got lost and trapped in the waterlogged area in Ocean Breeze soon before 2 p.m. while he was walking to a doctor’s appointment, cops said.
He called 911 when he fell over and police dispatched the helicopter to search for him.
The man’s clothes blended in with the marshland, police said, but one of the officers eventually spotted him.
One of the officers rappelled down from the helicopter and harnessed himself to the trapped man. They were then both pulled back onto the helicopter.
They dropped him off at nearby Staten Island University Hospital North, and he’s expected to make a full recovery.
The cops spotted him in the nick of time, authorities said. The gas light in the helicopter turned on just before they dropped him off at the hospital.