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| EMS Captian Penny Knotts and Lt Nick Mandell crossing the flooded road to check on the driver. |
Friday evening's downpour brought even more moisture to an area already soaked by a month of record-breaking rain.
Often overlooked in storms, area fire and emergency volunteers were pressed into action to rescue drivers caught in their vehicles.
This from Pomeroy Fire Company's home page describing the joint effort of Parkesburg and Pomeroy emergency volunteers to rescue a woman trapped in her car on Limestone Road (Route 10) south of Parkesburg:
Parkesburg Fire and Rescue along with Pomeroy EMS as part of the joint EMS coverage were alerted at approximately 18:30 hours this evening for a reported car in the water with a subject trapped inside. Rescue 28 (Parkesburg) made the response along with Ambulance 29-2.
Units were sent to the area of South Limestone Road and Valley View Drive, and on the arrival of Rescue 28 a vehicle was found stuck in the high water from a continual torrential rainfall that had started earlier in the day. As rescue personnel were crossing the high water 2 by-standers who had helped push the stranded motorist out crossed back to the Parkesburg side. They reported that the woman inside was fine, but scared, and the car had stalled out from the high water.
After making sure the driver was safe Ambulance 29-2 was recalled, fire police and Highland Township closed both sides of Limestone Road and Rescue 28 cleared the scene.
