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 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 out and taken to an area hospital.

A 31-year-old Wareham woman was pulled out of the waters of the Cape Cod Canal Thursday afternoon, according to police. Bourne Police got a call about the woman around 12:43 p.m. The unnamed woman in the water wasn’t able to get to shore on her own,