Apple AirTag helps in rescue of missing man from icy ravine

HOBOKEN, New Jersey (PIX11) — A man is lucky to be alive after his Apple AirTag helped emergency response teams find him after he went missing in New Jersey.

Body camera footage from New Jersey Transit Police shows the moment officers and firefighters used ropes and a board to hoist the man up 40 feet from an icy ravine in Jersey City on Friday.

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Police had been searching for the man since Thursday, when they finally heard his AirTag pinging around 8:40 a.m. on Friday, officials reported.

He was found near the Ninth Street NJ Transit station after he fell down an icy embankment on the Hoboken-Jersey City border, according to transit police. He was too injured to move and had been exposed to freezing temperatures for hours…

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