A 39-year-old volunteer with the Princeton First Aid & Rescue squad is in critical condition after being pulled unconscious from an attempted water rescue early this morning.
At a press conference this afternoon, Gov. Chris Christie initially identified the man as a Princeton firefighter "who succumbed to his injuries from an attempted swift water rescue."
Greg Paulson, the deputy director of the first aid squad, said that information was incorrect and the man was a first aid squad member who was alive and in critical condition at University Medical Center at Princeton.
Members of the first aid squad were called to the area of Rosedale Road between the hours of 3 and 4 a.m. this morning on a report of a car trapped in floodwater, Paulson said.
While approaching the car, two members of the squad’s swift water rescue team realized the current was too strong and attempted to turn back.
