U.S. rescuers brave cracking ice to pull two from sinking truck

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U.S. rescuers brave cracking ice to pull two from sinking truck

 

Rescue workers help a person who was in a truck which had fallen into the harbour at Cummings Park, Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. February 1, 2021, in this still image taken from a social media video. Stamford Fire Department/via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - U.S. firefighters battled crumbling ice in Long Island Sound to rescue two people trapped after a truck broke through and sank in the frigid waters beneath, authorities said on Tuesday.

 

Social media images of the incident near the Connecticut city of Stamford showed rescuers extending an aerial ladder over the ice to reach the couple in the sinking vehicle.

 

"The extreme winds, snow and tide continued to move the vehicle and cause it to fill with water," Matt Palmer, deputy chief of the Stamford Fire Department, said on its website, adding that the mishap came at the peak of a nor'easter storm.

 

Snow up to 2 feet (61 cm) deep was dumped across the U.S. northeast on Monday and Tuesday, killing three people and shutting down transport.

 

Stamford firefighters battled crumbling ice and a winter storm to rescue two people trapped after a truck broke through and sank in the frigid waters beneath.

 

Some of the Stamford rescuers, wearing yellow protective suits, swam through the freezing waters of the Sound to pull the white pickup truck's occupants to safety before it sank completely in the 79-acre (32-hectare) beach-fringing Cummings Park.

 

"Let's go!" shouted one of the rescue team in the video, while another said, "Give me a hand!" as they pulled one passenger from the water.

A man pulled from the truck's cab through its rear window was taken to hospital, but a woman who had been riding in its rear cargo area declined medical aid, Palmer said in the website statement.

 

Firefighters and divers stayed behind to help lift the vehicle out of the water.

 

(Reporting by Yi Shu Ng; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Jane Wardell)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2021-02-04

 

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[Tug]

Idiots they were very lucky to have such a quick response very lucky indeed 

[Rimmer]

According to Live Leak they were doing donuts on the ice !!!

 

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uWdI2_1612302433

 

 

 

 

[1Gringo]

Darwin Award candidates.

[AgMech Cowboy]

7 hours ago, Rimmer said:

According to Live Leak they were doing donuts on the ice !!!

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uWdI2_1612302433

Thanks Rimmer. I was going to ask what the he** they were doing out there. Now we know. Competing for the Darwin Award as 1Gringo suggested.

[Stargeezr]

Lucky guys , but did either of them learn a thing from their near death

experience?  I seriously doubt it.

Geezer