The assistance of staff at Armando’s Riverside Restaurant was key in the rescue of two men that fell in the freezing water of the Lakeview Park Marina over the weekend.
Windsor police say that shortly before 9:00 p.m. on Dec. 20, officers were called after a man fell into the water while standing too close to the marina wall. A second man jumped in to help him.
“It was freezing cold and it was wet and it was slippery,” said restaurant owner Mohamed Rashwan. “One of my drivers heard someone screaming for help. So he ran to me and he told me someone [is] in the water, someone is calling for help.”
Rashwan says that roughly a dozen staff members rushed to action, “When we get there, we found two guys in the water, holding onto the side of the wall, trying to climb up.”
They pulled the first person …