PHOTO: Early this month, the fire department freed a woman who was stuck in mud and sand near Lisabeula Park.
Lore Wintergreen, a new island resident, said she and her partner had gone for a walk on March 2 at low tide. She ventured ahead, ultimately growing stuck and sinking knee-deep in mud, which sucked her down. “I thought it was just muck,” she said of the material that held her tight.
Unable to free herself, she called her partner, who in turn called 911.
Firefighter/emergency medical technician Ben Davidson was among those on the call. Initially, he and his colleagues thought it was a joke — the report of a woman stuck in the sand — but that thought quickly changed.
“When we got there, we could see she was legitimately in peril, in the sand and mud up to her knees, and we could not get to her,” he said, adding they to began to get stuck themselves when they tried to approach her.
He and the other firefighters began retrieving logs and created a makeshift dock to get out to her.