Water Rescue

A woman’s body was found near a restaurant in the waters of Narragansett Bay near Bristol, Rhode Island, Thursday, police said. Police in Portsmouth said Friday that the body is that of a woman who fell from a ferry in the bay this week, She was 39-year-old Laura Ward from Prudence Island. The body was found in the water...

After a man’s boat flipped on a Tyngsboro lake, throwing him into the frigid water, a nearby angler quickly went into rescue mode.

First responders searched overnight for a person in the water in or around Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Monday night, officials said. A woman fell off the Prudence Island ferry about 6:30 p.m., Bristol’s fire chief told NBC affiliate WJAR. But the search was suspended Tuesday, after Coast Guard crews spent 10 hours scanning 39 square nautical miles without finding her,…

Firefighters rescued a woman stuck in the waters of Boston Harbor off Chelsea, after she said she’d been in the water for hours.

It only took minutes for firefighters to rescue a woman stranded in the water off Chelsea, Massachusetts, Thursday morning, but she may have been there for hours. A 911 call came in around 7 a.m. after someone heard crying coming from about 50 to 100 feet from the Chelsea shoreline. The woman was alone and clinging to a pillar under…

A person who was kayaking in Boston Harbor called 911 to report his boat was taking on water Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The person was in a neon green kayak near Spectacle Island, according to the Coast Guard. The man was found in the water and was unharmed, Boston police said. Rescue boats could seen in the…

Littleton police say someone escaped from the car and flagged down drivers around 6:30 a.m. Monday.

A family driving on Interstate 495 careened into a pond Monday morning in Littleton, Massachusetts, and had to be rescued, police said. Littleton police shared photos of the car nearly completely submerged in Beaverbrook Pond and the family of three getting ready to climb a ladder back to the roadway. The man, woman and baby were taken to a hospital…

A swimmer who went missing in a river in Newbury has been found dead.

A swimmer who went missing Wednesday in Newbury, Massachusetts, has been found dead, authorities confirmed. The U.S. Coast Guard said in a tweet around 9:30 p.m. that the body of the missing man who had been sought in the Parker River had been found. The Coast Guard sent a rescue boat to help in the search. Coast Guard officials...

A nursing home in Sudbury was evacuated after heavy rain led to flooding.

A nursing home in Sudbury is evacuating residents due to flooding after severe storms hit Massachusetts.

Firefighters had to rescue four people from their cars after they became submerged in flood waters on a street in Worcester.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Fred brought torrential rain and severe weather to New England Thursday morning, prompting flash flood warnings and tornado warnings across the region. Fire crews evacuated 78 residents from Bear Mountain, a nursing home in Sudbury, by Thursday night. A roof that had been under repair was leaking, leaving the building uninhabitable. Three people fire officials…

A person was pulled from the water Wednesday in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Fire officials in Duxbury said around 5:15 p.m. that one person had been pulled from the ocean along Bay Avenue. The patient was being taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth. No information about the person’s condition was immediately available.

Two women who were rescued amid wild weather off the coast of Scituate, Massachusetts, are telling their tale. Colleen Burke and Lisa Hickey were paddleboarding Tuesday when a powerful storm hit. “The weather turned, and the next thing, the lighting and the thunder and the waves and the wind were all on top of us,” said Hickey. The two tried…

It didn’t take long for the 911 calls to start coming in Tuesday evening in Scituate, Massachusetts, a place known for its wild weather, as a powerful storm was moving through the area. “It came in quick, the winds whipped up, we had almost zero visibility, two to four foot seas, lightning,” Scituate Fire Chief John Murphy said. “Very difficult…

Two paddleboarders survived after being on the ocean off the coast of Scituate when storms blew through Thursday

A young child was airlifted Thursday after being pulled from a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts. A firefighter and a police officer, both off-duty, helped rescue the 3-year-old around 7:15 p.m. during a family night at Camp Clark at the YMCA on Hedges Pond Road. The child was in the water with a life vest on, but at some point, the…

A firefighter and a police officer, both off-duty, helped rescue a young child from the water.