A heroic NYPD officer is crediting her skills in the water for helping to save a woman from drowning in the Central Park Reservoir last week.
Even now, days after NYPD officer Emily Healy jumped in the water to save a woman, watching the newly released video of the heroic act reminds her how things could have gone really bad fast. She spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News on Monday.Healy and Sergeant Regina DeBellis rescued the woman after she went swimming in the Central Park Reservoir.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on April 12, Debellis and Healy were on patrol. When they got to the northern end of the reservoir, a person flagged them down saying a woman was in the water."We tried to call her back on to shore, like hey come back, communicate with her, see if she could get back herself, when that wasn't an option she said she didn't know how," said Healy.
One asset that made Healy uniquely qualified for the call was that she is on the NYPD swim team. She has been since it started a few years ago. She's a natural in the water. "I swam in high school and college and competed year round for that, so while it wasn't the warmest pool I've ever been in, it's good, and it was nice to say I have the skill set to go help this woman," Healy said.