Stillwater: Lift Bridge rescue call was false alarm, authorities say

Several agencies responded to a water-rescue call in Stillwater on Thursday afternoon after the Stillwater Lift Bridge tender called government to review that a group of young women thought they had seen a young man go into the St Croix River and not surface Law enforcement officers searched the river in boats using sonar scanners and divers from the Washington County Fire Rescue Dive Organization searched the bottom of the river but no one was detected disclosed Washington County Sheriff s Office Sgt Kevin Jadwinski The initial review which came in around p m reported the young man was thought to have gone into the river from the undercarriage of the pedestrian bridge just east of the bridge tender s building Jadwinski mentioned Boats with scanning innovation searched the river for about two hours and did not see anything he commented Divers were in the river searching the bottoms of the river for to minutes and they didn t find anything In addition crews from the Minnesota Department of Transportation scanned footage from cameras located at the top of the bridge and the bottom of the bridge going back minutes prior to the call coming in and never located anyone falling or jumping off the bridge Jadwinski disclosed Law enforcement cleared the scene at p m he explained We unfailingly take these types of calls seriously Jadwinski mentioned We are going to throw all the information that we have at it if it means saving someone s life until we can deem that no one is in the water Related Articles East Metro Softball Athlete of the Year Forest Lake s Avery Muellner Retiring Woodbury city administrator says over years he s watched the city grow DOC commissioner asks for patience from Stillwater prison families dismisses idea of reopening Appleton prison Obituary Col Thomas Simonet helped lead I- W bridge collapse response and umpire vintage baseball Woodbury City Council announces new city administrator