Legislation calling for the installation of safety barriers or safety netting on the three Newport County bridges - the Mount Hope Bridge, the Newport Pell Bridge and the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge - is under consideration in both the state Senate and House of Representatives, The Daily News reported earlier this month. 20, 2018, there were 12 suicide deaths on the Mount Hope Bridge, nine on the Pell Bridge and six on the Jamestown Bridge, bringing the total to 27 during that near nine-year span. In 2019, The Daily News reported that between Jan. More: What can be done about suicide deaths on Newport County bridges? "No recovery made that I am aware," Newport Fire Chief Brian Dugan said in an email Sunday.Ī DEM spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email on Sunday seeking updates on any potential search progress. The state Department of Environmental Management and the Narragansett Bay Marine Task Force that includes the Newport Fire Department’s fire boat and those of multiple other agencies around the bay also participated in that search, The Daily News reported previously. “As far as I know, a recovery hasn’t been made.” “After that, we haven’t continued searching,” Coast Guard Seaman Nicholas Cipriani said Sunday. Then on April 1, after receiving a report someone had jumped from the Newport Pell Bridge that afternoon, the Coast Guard and other agencies conducted an eight-hour search in Narragansett Bay but did not locate a body. More: Lawmakers want barriers erected on three Newport County bridges to deter suicide attempts It is the newspaper’s policy not to release the names of people who die by bridge suicide. On March 26, the body of a 30-year-old New Jersey man who jumped from the center span of the Newport Pell Bridge that day was recovered about two hours later. Sunday’s response comes on the heels of similar reports made over the past several days. ![]() “We were dispatched but we were cancelled before we got underway,” a Newport Fire Department dispatcher said Sunday. More: Body of man who jumped from the Newport Pell Bridge is located Officials Sunday couldn’t confirm from where on the bridge the man jumped.īoatswain’s Mate Second Class Jarrod Holub said the Coast Guard Station Castle Hill dispatched a 45-foot vessel after receiving a call from the North Kingston Fire Department at 6:27 a.m. Kettelle said the man was recovered in the water approximately 1,000 feet south of the bridge. John Charbonneau said Sunday the 69-year-old man, formerly of South Kingstown, was pronounced dead at Kent Hospital in Warwick shortly before 8 a.m. More: 8-hour search yields no results after report of person jumping from Newport Pell Bridge Within four minutes of arrival by the fire rescue boat, our personnel located an individual, an adult male,” North Kingstown Fire Department Chief Scott Kettelle told The Daily News late Sunday morning. We sent land assets to the bridge to attempt to identify or search the water area from the bridge location and our fire rescue boat responded from Wickford. “We received the call at 6:19 for a reported bridge jumper. ![]() JAMESTOWN - The North Kingstown Fire Department responded Sunday morning to a report of a person who jumped from the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, marking the third report in the past nine days of people who jumped off local bridges.
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