Video shows firefighters jumping into floodwaters to save woman trapped in submerged car
A pair of fearless firefighters saved a woman’s life by rescuing her from her car — which had sunk several feet into flood water.
The rescue occurred on Thursday on Acadian Thruway, just south of Interstate I-10 at a railroad underpass in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Curt Monte, public information officer for Baton Rouge Fire Department tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
The video indicates that the woman’s sedan had turned and was bobbing, nose-down, in the flood. The firefighters pulled out tools and smashed what appeared to be a backseat window to pull out the woman and release her from the car.
WBRZ reported that since the truck was too far, a firefighter had to use the blunt end of his multi-tool to smash the window and cut his arm in the process.
Firefighter Aaron Samson indicated that the woman was lucky to have made it out of the car. “The chances of her getting out — if she hadn’t crawled to the back, it probably wouldn’t have went the way it went,” he said to WBRZ.
Footage taken by WBRZ shows that in a team effort, firefighters pulled the woman from the flooded underpass and helped her back to solid land.
Monte tells Yahoo Lifestyle that the Capt. Troy Pate, Fire Equipment Officer Jerome Courville, firefighters Aaron Samson and Thang Nguyen, and Engine 9 of Baton Rouge Fire Department were involved in the rescue.
Monte added that there were several rescues throughout the city on Thursday. One rescue turned to a fatality due to drowning after a man attempted to drive through the water. While firefighters managed to rescue him from the water, he died later in a local hospital.
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