🚨A 5-year-old girl was rescued after wandering into a lake in a Newark park.
🚨Firefighters and a police officer saved two teens in the ocean off Asbury Park.
🚨Two separate waterway crashes Friday left two people injured.
NEWARK — It was another dangerous weekend in New Jersey’s waterways.
A 5-year-old girl was saved from drowning by bystanders and police in a lake at Branch Brook Park in Newark on Sunday afternoon, the Essex County Sheriff’s Office told NJ.com. The girl wandered into the water near a boathouse as her grandfather was putting a sibling in the car, according to NJ.com. Both are residents of Newark.
An estimated 300 people watched from the beach in Asbury Park as a police officer and two firefighters swam to two teens in the water, according to a post on Facebook by the Asbury Park Professional Firefighters Local 384. Two of the firefighters reached one of the teens who did not appear to be in immediate danger, according to the post. They instructed him to swim toward the shore. A firefighter met the teen and assisted him to safety…