UPDATE: Teen who jumped from the Victory Bridge Monday night is hospitalized, but expected to survive, police say 
 
 PERTH AMBOY — Rescuers pulled a second teenager from the Raritan River late Monday night after he jumped or fell from the Victory Bridge, according to city officials. 
 
 It was the second time in less than two weeks a teenager has been found in the waters under the bridge. 
 
 The victim, 19, left his cellphone on the bridge before the incident occurred about 7:58 p.m., according to a city official. 
 
 “We recovered a male screaming for help in the water,” said Perth Amboy Fire Chief Abe Pitre. “He was alive and conscious with some injuries.” 
 
 Rescuers pulled the victim onto a fireboat and brought him to a nearby dock, Pitre said. The victim was then flown by helicopter to a local hospital. 
 
 His name and condition were not available Tuesday morning. 
 
 Pitre said he did not know whether the victim jumped or fell from the bridge. 
 
 Police were not immediately available for comment Tuesday morning. 
 
 On Saturday, Sept. 20, rescuers recovered the body of a 16-year-old student at the city’s Academy for Urban Leadership Charter High School. The student had apparently jumped from the Victory Bridge in Perth Amboy. 
 
 The Victory Bridge is a state-owned bridge connecting Perth Amboy with Sayreville. 
 
 Twenty-two people have died jumping off the bridge since 2004. Police have been called to the bridge for suicides and attempted suicides more than 80 times in 10 years, according to city officials. 
 
 Last year, one officer suffered a dislocated shoulder and later retired due to the injury, which occurred after he pulled a suicidal man to safety on the bridge. 
 
 Mayor Wilda Diaz and police Chief Ben Ruiz have urged the state to install mesh or a fence to make it more difficult for people to climb over the rails. 
 
 Officials blame easy access – a lack of a fence, plenty of parking near the bridge, low traffic volume and split rails on either side, which create sort of stepladder. 
 
 On Sunday, hundreds attended an annual rally at the bridge to ask the state to erect barriers. Family members of the 16-year-old who jumped earlier this month attended the rally. 
 
 On Monday afternoon – before the latest jump occurred – state Department of Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox met with Diaz to discuss the bridge. 
 
 “He was responsive and willing to work with the city of Perth Amboy to resolve the matter at hand regarding the Victory Bridge,” said city spokeswoman Noelia Colon. 
 
 The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached at 1-800-273-8255. 
 
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 The Victory Bridge spans the Raritan River, connecting Perth Amboy and Sayreville. The state bridge has become known as the “suicide bridge” due to the number of people who have attempted or have jumped to their death from the span. (Photo: ~File photo ) Story Highlights A 19-year-old Perth Amboy man apparently jumped off the Victory Bridge on Monday night. The man survived and was rescued by city personnel. 
 
 The man was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after suffering an apparent fractured femur and possible internal injuries. 
 
 The man jumped the same day city officials met with the new state DOT commissioner to request a barrier be placed on the "suicide bridge." 
 
 Mayor Wilda Diaz also has requested that State Troopers monitor the bridge until a barrier is installed. 
 
 A day after hundreds of people marched to the top of the Victory Bridge calling for a barrier to be placed on the Route 35 span to prevent more people from jumping to their death, a 19-year-old city man jumped off the bridge. 
 
 The man managed to survive his fall and was rushed to the hospital with a possible broken leg, police said. 
 
 Around 8 p.m. Monday police received a call from a man who was fishing in the Raritan River under the bridge. He reported hearing a loud splash but didn't see anything. The man then heard yells for help, according to Police Capt. Lawrence Cattano. 
 
 The man spotted someone in the water who was being carried away by the current. 
 
 Cattano said the city's police and fire boats were sent out. A tug boat set off a flare guiding first responders to the area where the man was in the water. Cattano said the man was in the water for about 40 minutes before he was pulled to safety. 
 
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 The 19-year-old man was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after suffering an apparent fracture femur and possible internal injuries. Police took the man's mother and uncle to the hospital. 
 
 EDITORIAL: NJ must install barriers on 'Suicide Bridge' 
 
 The man's jump off the bridge comes at a time where there has been increased attention focused on the span that connects Perth Amboy and Sayreville along Route 35. Sunday's march was held just days after the funeral for Giancarlos Taveras, 16, a junior at the Academy for Urban Leadership Charter High School, who is believed to have jumped off the bridge nearly two weeks ago. His body was found on some rocks near the base of the bridge on Sept. 20. That same day the body of a Plainfield man who had apparently jumped off the Driscoll Bridge was found nearby. 
 
 Taveras death was the 82nd time someone has attempted or committed suicide since the 110-foot bridge was redesigned in 2004, creating a high arch in the middle. City officials have been calling for the state Department of Transportation to install a barrier on the bridge to prevent suicides since the redesigned bridge opened. 
 
 “I believe they should have a state trooper on the bridge 24-hours a day, 7 days a week to let them know how it feels. Let them feel the burden, let them feel the pain just like Perth Amboy.” Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz 
 
 Mayor Wilda Diaz, along with state Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-19th District and Police Chief Benjamin Ruiz met Monday with state Commissioner of Transportation Jamie Fox to discuss the bridge such as the pain the suicides have caused the families, and the financial hardship the bridge puts on the city to conduct rescue and recovery operations. 
 
 Diaz said the bridge is state property, but yet its this city's emergency personnel who are always the first responders when someone jumps off the bridge. She said the rescue or recovery operations put the city's personnel at risk. She noted one police officer injured trying to rescue someone attempting to jump off the bridge now is on permanent disability. 
 
 "We want to see some kind of barrier, fencing or mesh. We want them (state officials) to make this a priority. The state built the bridge they should be responsible for it," said Diaz who fears there will be copy cat suicide attempts. 
 
 Going forward Diaz wants the state to put security on the bridge. 
 
 "I believe they should have a state trooper on the bridge 24-hours a day, 7 days a week to let them know how it feels. Let them feel the burden, let them feel the pain just like Perth Amboy," Diaz said. 
 
 Diaz said Fox offered to look at the issue and hopefully work toward a solution. 
 
 "Meantime the state has to start sending us help here," Diaz said. "Don't put the burden on us." 
 
 Staff Writer Suzanne Russell: 732-565-7335; srussell@mycentraljersey.com 
 
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 Police and firefighters were called to the bridge after Daury Hernandez-Gomez, 19, of New Brunswick Avenue jumped about 8 p.m. Monday. 
 
 Firefighters in a boat found the teen in the water – injured and screaming for help. 
 
 A city official said early Tuesday it was unclear whether Hernandez-Gomez had jumped or fallen into the water. But police now say the teen jumped. 
 
 “He’s going to make it,” city police Chief Ben Ruiz said Tuesday afternoon. 
 
 Ruiz said Hernandez-Gomez had been struggling “with depression and other issues" before jumping from the bridge. 
 
 The police chief said he was unsure where on the span the teen had jumped, but added “he had to be up fairly high to hit the water.” 
 
 Ruiz had no explanation for how the teen survived. 
 
 “We’ve had other survivors,” Ruiz said. “Only the big guy upstairs knows when it’s your time to go.” 
 
 The suicide attempt comes less than two weeks after rescuers recovered the body of a 16-year-old student at the city’s Academy for Urban Leadership Charter High School. The student had apparently jumped from the bridge. 
 
 Police have been called to the Victory Bridge more than 80 times in the past years for suicides and attempts. 
 
 On Monday afternoon – before the latest jump occurred – state Department of Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox met with Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz to discuss the bridge. 
 
 “He was responsive and willing to work with the city of Perth Amboy to resolve the matter at hand regarding the Victory Bridge,” said city spokeswoman Noelia Colon. 
 
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 ||||| PERTH AMBOY – For the second time in less than 48 hours, a teenager has attempted suicide at the Victory Bridge, a city official confirmed this afternoon. 
 
 But unlike Monday – when 19-year-old Daury Hernandez-Gomez jumped into the water but survived – police and firefighters were able to remove the person from the bridge and transport her to a local hospital for evaluation. 
 
 The 16-year-old's name was not released because she is a juvenile. 
 
 “The person was removed by an off-duty firefighter and police officers,” said Perth Amboy Fire Chief Abe Pitre. 
 
 Route 35 traffic lanes over the bridge were closed for more than an hour due to the incident. 
 
 Since 2004, there have been 22 suicides at the bridge. 
 
 The latest death occurred earlier this month when a 16-year-old high school student jumped to his death. 
 
 On Monday, DOT Commissioner Jamie Fox met with Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz and state Sen. Joe Vitale to discuss how to keep people from jumping off the bridge. 
 
 City officials have argued for mesh or fence to make it difficult for people to climb over the rail. 
 
 “The Commissioner is committed to working with them to see what can be done and NJDOT is investigating the situation,” Steve Schapiro, spokesman for the NJDOT, stated in an email to NJ Advance Media on Wednesday. 
 
 The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached at 1-800-273-8255. 
 
 Anthony G. Attrino may be reached at aattrino@nj.com. Follow him on Twitter @TonyAttrino. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
– A 2004 redesign of New Jersey's Victory Bridge created a 110-foot-high span that has since become a favored suicide destination. In the last decade, at least 82 people have attempted suicide by leaping off it, and 22 have died. The bridge, which connects Perth Amboy and Sayreville along Route 35, was the subject of a march held last weekend in which locals called for the erection of a barrier, reports My Central Jersey. The Sept. 28 event followed roughly a week after Giancarlos Taveras, 16, is believed to have jumped from the span; his body was found on rocks below. And in the days since the march, two more attempts have been made. Around 8pm on Monday, a fisherman heard a splash, followed by cries for help. Some 40 minutes later, 19-year-old Daury Hernandez-Gomez was pulled from the water; NJ.com reports he had left his cellphone on the bridge above before jumping. He suffered a broken pelvis. On Wednesday, another teen who reportedly planned to end her life was saved by first responders, including an off-duty firefighter, who removed her from the bridge, reports NJ.com. Perth Amboy officials have long asked NJDOT to install a suicide barrier; though the bridge is state-owned, city officials are typically the first to respond, creating a financial burden. Officers claim that a number of factors—no barrier, parking adjacent to the bridge, light traffic, and a style of railing that functions as a sort of stepladder—contribute to the problem.