Lending a hand were the Bourne Fire Department, Massachusetts State Police, Massachusetts Environmental Police, US Army Corps of Engineers, Harbormaster, US Coast Guard, Wareham Police, and Wareham EMS. After the rescue, the woman was taken to an area hospital.

Shortly after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to the canal for a report of a woman in the canal, Bourne police said.

A woman was pulled alive from the Cape Cod Canal Thursday afternoon after police responded to a call of someone in the water.

A woman was rescued from the water of the Cape Cod Canal on Thursday afternoon, Bourne police said, in what was not believed to have been a criminal incident. It wasn’t immediately clear how the woman got into the water — temperatures were below freezing across the area Thursday — but police said the 31-year-old from Wareham was pulled