Hear Washington Woman's Terrifying 911 Call From Sinking Car
The woman was trapped in a canal for almost 45 minutes.
— -- A 911 call capturing the moment a woman is trapped inside her car – as it begins to fill with water – has been released.
The woman was stuck inside the sinking Toyota Camry in Washington State's Stillaguamish River for almost 45 minutes Wednesday, the call to the emergency services detailing her panic.
"I'm hyperventilating now. Oh, my God, somebody please," she says.
The dispatcher asks if she’s keeping her head above the water. Her reply: "My head is out of the water, but not for too long."
Snohomish County deputy Bill Dawson told ABC affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle that he had saved another trapped driver on the same road a few hours before.
Police say she got into difficulty after driving around a “Road Closed” sign, where the street was flooded and she was pulled into the nearby river.
Emergency crews got to the woman just in time, police said, entering the water using a backhoe before bringing to woman to safety.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story referred to a 30-year-old woman whose car had plunged into Washington’s Centralia Canal yesterday morning. In fact, that incident happened in 2014. The 911 call cited in this story came from a woman whose car was in the Stillaguamish River this past Wednesday.