The photographers in Maine are a sturdy bunch. Andy Molloy, a staffer at the Kennebec Journal, was out on a feature the second week of July. He stopped to photograph a few guys swimming in a local watering hole near a dam. As Molloy worked the scene, one of the men swimming drifted too close to the dam when the stream pulled one of them over and down a 15 foot water fall. According to the Portland Press Herald:
Molloy, who has worked as a first responder in the past, and two men who had been working nearby were able to pull Lawson to shore and hold him above water until rescuers arrived.
“Andy (Molloy) went into the water and dragged him to the edge,” Roche said. “He was the man who saved (Lawson) from going under permanently.”
A life jacket and an ambulance. Two more things to put in your bags when out shooting. Thanks to Damon Kiesow, our NPPA member to the north, for the alert.
-Sarah Evans.
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