A 37-year-old woman who slipped into rushing water at a San Antonio park was swept down a drainage canal Friday after losing her footing just as firefighters tried to reach her with a ladder.
The rescue unfolded shortly after noon at Woodlawn Lake Park, where a KENS 5 crew captured the scene as San Antonio firefighters positioned themselves along the canal.
San Antonio Park Police told the station that the woman had climbed over a chain-link fence and made her way down toward the canal before becoming stranded on a steep concrete retaining wall…