News of the Arroyo
Title: | Two Plucked to Safety in Dramatic River Rescue |
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Date: | 2008-01-27 |
Summary: | January 27, 2008 - A dramatic rescue in the flood-swollen Arroyo Seco near Mount Washington. |
Author: | Staff |
Publication: | Association Press - KTLA |
Content: | A series of four separate multi-car collisions on the Pasadena (110) Freeway within an hour left two injured people briefly stuck in a car in the flooded Arroyo Seco, officials said today. Swiftwater rescue teams were sent to the wrecked car, just off the northbound freeway\'s lanes at the Avenue 43 bridge. The car, a green sedan, was at the bottom of a 30-foot-deep concrete channel lined at that location with vertical walls. The smashed car was in about 2 feet of fast-moving water, but the concrete channel had a dry area on its banks that was used by Los Angeles firefighters to get to the victims. Helicopter video from the scene showed a young girl, an apparent passenger in the wrecked sedan, standing next to an adult. The presumed driver was strapped to a basket and lifted out of the channel by a heavy-duty fire department tow truck. Both people were taken to County-USC Medical Center, firefighters at the scene said. That crash was one of four apparently-unrelated crashes and collisions on the twisting freeway just after 7 a.m. A half-mile to the north of the water rescue, the Pasadena Freeway was closed by a three-car collision, as well as a crash in the resulting backup, CHP officers said. And just to the north of that wreck, a Ford Bronco reportedly overturned on the southbound freeway at the York Boulevard turnoff. The twisting Pasadena Freeway was built in 1943 and has numerous hard turns and 5 mile-per-hour exits. |
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