Orange County firefighters pulled a family to safety and saved one man, sinking into the Tule River's sucking ooze.
The hard part should have been over. The Loftis family home had barely escaped the fierce floodwaters of the Tule River, which laid waste to many others early Friday morning in this Sierra foothill community.
Soaked, sweating fiercely and a bit embarrassed by all the attention, Stinson thanked firefighter Jason Trevino, Capt. Chris Stevens and the others who delivered him back to solid ground. The Swift Water Rescue Team from Orange County pull their Zodiac from a flooded area after rescuing a family from their inundated property.
Uncertainty and changing circumstances are the rule for swift water rescue teams. The Orange County group’s previous assignments have taken them anywhere from plucking guests stranded atop rides at Knott’s Berry Farm to mountainside where injured hikers were stranded after life-threatening falls. The 70-something Woodmansee said his own home upriver had been spared, but the two others he maintains as income properties would be difficult to repair. Flood insurance had been so high, he and his wife had decided to go without. Uncertain how he would rebuild, the retiree said his worries pale in comparison with the burden on others, including one of his tenants — a mother working three jobs — who did not know where she would move.
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