081619 Lawnmower crash and helecopter airlift

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A 69-year-old Kingston man is lifted onto a gurney before being wheeled to a helicopter for transport to Mercyhealth in Rockford after his lawnmower fell down a hill into the Kishwaukee River behind his home on Thornton Drive. The man had to be extricated from the mower that was nearly completely submerged in the water.