Marnie Muñoz – The Detroit News
Officials are searching for a person who reportedly jumped into the Detroit River early Thursday, a U.S. Coast Guard Detroit Sector representative said.
USCG received notification of the incident at 4:30 a.m. and immediately launched a search operation, the representative told The News.
Detroit Sector officials sent out a helicopter to assist with the search and were refueling the aircraft before sending it out again shortly before 8 a.m.
USCG boats were also on the river searching near Belle Isle alongside Detroit Fire Department crews and boats from Canada’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre on the Canadian side of the water, the representative said.
The operation was still a rescue mission Thursday morning, the representative said.
The Detroit Fire Department deployed a search and rescue boat to assist other agencies with the search, a representative told The Detroit News. Officials do not know why the person jumped into the river,.
Thursday’s rescue operation comes after Detroit firefighters rescued a man from the river last week.
Dispatchers received a 911 call at about 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 21 about a man in the river yelling for help, Detroit fire officials said. First responders successfully rescued the man and took him to a hospital.
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