Several Florida first responders are being credited for saving an elderly man, who had a medical emergency, and two dogs from a sinking SUV.
The heroic rescue was caught on camera about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Longwood, a suburb of Orlando, after a man reported a vehicle had left the roadway and drove into a retention pond.
“This is right now number one with a silver bullet for me as far as one of the most amazing things, if not the most amazing thing, I’ve ever seen in my life,” Longwood Mayor Matt Morgan told FOX 35. He was stuck in traffic nearby before he got to witness city and county first responders working together in the extrication.
Police Sergeant Kris Burnham and Officer Bryce Snyder arrived at the scene and immediately entered the water. Snyder reached the driver’s side door, where he determined the elderly man driver was conscious but unresponsive, according to a press release.
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