Rescuers pluck man from river, woman from El tracks

Quick acting emergency workers helped avert tragedy in making two rescues in the city in little over an hour this morning.

In the first, a man jumped into the Delaware River near the Hyatt Hotel at Penn's Landing about 9 a.m.

As a half-dozen Fire Department vehicles rushed to the scene, a police boat plucked the man from the water.

Medics took him to Jefferson University Hospital in serious condition.

At 10:10 a.m., firefighters responded to the Frankford Elevated Line station at Kensington and Allegheny Avenues for a woman who fell on the tracks.

Fortunately, no train was entering the station and there was time to halt service on the line.

Firefighters from Engine 7 and Ladder 10 got the woman, who was conscious, off the tracks and medics took her to Temple University Hospital to be examined.