Nassau County Police say the trio of duck hunters got stranded in Hewlett Harbor when a gust of wind blew their boat away Thursday night.
A police helicopter used its flood lights to find them.
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Officers on a boat then brought the hunters safely ashore.
A friend of the hunters located their boat and towed it back.
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