NIAGARA FALLS (AP) -- A police marine unit has rescued two men after their boat's engine failed and they drifted to within 1,000 feet of the brink of Niagara Falls.
Authorities tell Buffalo media outlets that 25-year-old Robert Jackubec and 27-year-old Raymond Metzger were boating on the upper Niagara River near Grand Island Monday afternoon when the engine stopped working.
The men tossed out an anchor to stop the boat from drifting downriver but it didn't work. They used a cell phone to call for help, and the Erie County Sheriff's Marine Unit soon arrived to find the men's boat stuck in shallow water within 1,000 of the falls.
Two officers attached a line to the disabled boat and towed it to shore.
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