Intelligencer Journal/New Era
LANCASTER, Pa. — Two men were rescued after their boat capsized in the Susquehanna River late Saturday in Conoy Township.
Fire units from Bainbridge and Maytown in Lancaster County were dispatched to the river at 11:45 p.m.
By the time those crews arrived, the men already were out of the water and with Dauphin County fire crews on the York County shore, according to Bainbridge Fire Company Boat Capt. Sean Laverty.
He said it’s believed one of the men stood up in the 12-foot aluminum boat, causing the craft to overturn.
The boaters fell into the water about a half-mile south of the York Haven hydroelectric plant, Laverty said.
He said the men — one is from Lancaster County and the other from Harrisburg — weren’t in the water very long, and he didn’t think they required medical treatment.
Fire crews towed the boat to the Lancaster County side of the river.
The boaters later retrieved it from a Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission access on Collins Road in Conoy Township.
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