Teaneck emergency responders rescued a 42-year-old woman who tumbled down an embankment while she walked along Route 4 early Saturday, officials said. 

The woman reportedly ran out of gas and called a friend for help, police said. The two walked to get gas at a station nearby in Hackensack, but when the friend got back he noticed the woman was no longer with him. 

He found her yelling for help near the Fairleigh Dickinson University baseball field, according to police. The friend tried helping her up, but ultimately called authorities around 7 a.m. 

An emergency medical technician from the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps went down the 30 foot embankment to care for the woman and township firefighters cut away fencing around the bottom of the hill, said TVAC spokesman Larry Robertson. She had fallen about 20 feet down. 

The woman was conscious, complaining of being very cold and of having knee pains, Robertson said. TVAC members and township firefighters carefully brought her down on a long spineboard and wheeled her several hundred feet to a waiting ambulance for treatment at Hackensack University Medical Center. She told authorities she was stuck for several hours. 

Police could not immediately provide additional details on the incident and her condition was not available Sunday night. 

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