body camera footage<\/a> released by the NYPD shows.<\/p>\nThe cat was seen paddling further away from its owner. NYPD<\/p>\n
The 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
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
The cat is also on the mend. NYPD<\/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":2,"featured_media":221488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,11198,100,99,194,57,9,24,63,103,25966,9494,58],"class_list":["post-221487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fdny","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-body-cameras","tag-rescue","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}