Just In: Cal Fire responds to a pickup truck stuck in water near Laura Dr. & Broadmoor Dr. in #ThousandPalms. pic.twitter.com/fIhULjL83N
— KMIR News (@KMIRNews) January 6, 2016
Turn around, don’t drown. That is the advice that The Riverside County Fire Department is offering this morning after making six rescues of people and cars stuck in high water on Tuesday.
“All of them drove into roadways that flooded or had mud and debris in them that caused their vehicles to get stuck,” Cal Fire spokeswoman April Newman told the Press Enterprise.
The rescues included a a car in Perris with two people in it that got stuck in shallow moving water and another in Thousand Palms – where a man had to be rescued from his pickup truck stuck in about 2 feet of moving water on a golf course.
#TurnAroundDontDrown #ElNino2016 @JhawkFire @RivCoReady pic.twitter.com/PxahFVBxsS
— CAL FIRE Riverside (@CALFIRERRU) January 6, 2016
No injuries were reported, but authorites remind drivers to use caution as a vehicle can swept away in as little as 2 feet of water.
“Find an alternate route,” Newman said.
Don't drive through flooded roadways, find an alternate route. #TurnAroundDontDrown pic.twitter.com/rA18Zd6IUK
— CAL FIRE Riverside (@CALFIRERRU) January 5, 2016
