News of the Arroyo
Title: | Car Wound Up in Two Feet of Fast-Moving Water |
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Date: | 2008-01-27 |
Summary: | January 27, 2008 - A car crashed through the fence and fell thirty feet into the raging currents of the Arroyo Seco flood channel Sunday morning. Swift action by rescuers brought the two victims to safety. |
Author: | Staff |
Publication: | KNX 1070 Newsradio |
Content: | LOS ANGELES (KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO) -- Swiftwater rescue teams moved into action quickly Sunday morning, to save two female victims who were briefly stuck in a car that wound up in the flooded Arroyo Seco in L.A.\'s Mount Washington area. The car plunged into the water after skidding in the rain-slicked southbound lanes of the 110 freeway above, near the Avenue 43 bridge. It wound up in about two feet of fast-moving water, at the bottom of a 30-foot-deep concrete channel lined with vertical walls. Rescuers were able to use a dry area on the nearby bank, as a base to reach 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. |
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