- We are responding to a water rescue.
[sirens]
- Patient ETOH stumbled into the river from the bike trail knee
deep in water, stuck in brush, negative with injuries.
Let's see.
Roll your window down just to make sure.
Take your head set off.
See if you hear anybody yelling when we're going by.
- Yeah, this guy is going to be nearly impossible to find.
I've got Star en route as well to try to light this thing up
and locate him.
- This is needle in a haystack level.
- Yeah.
- Brian.
- Yeah.
- What you got, man?
- Well, we saw a guy lightning from [inaudible]..
- Yeah. Down there?
- That close to the water.
We're just trying to find directly where he's at.
- OK. We--
- But they're in here somewhere. - All right.
- It's just a matter of being able to clear through this.
- Yeah.
- Per SSP they're saying this might
be a suspect from a previous hit and run who fled.
Suspect's view, 20s to 30s male wearing all red.
- Copied.
- I'm not sure if y'all can see him,
but he is right in the middle of our light right now.
- Where's that light?
So-- what they're going to do right now is basically here's
a suspect per PD from the last event.
They don't know if he's armed with a gun or not.
So they're having us backup.
They're going to talk him and have him come out to us.
So that's the game plan.
- If he's trapped in, though, we could be trapped in there,
like legit.
He might not be given us a hard time.
It's-- it's literally 15 feet deep.
And it's all branches and overgrown stuff
that's tangled up.
We'll get him out.
Have faith.
- Kind of complicated down here.
It's really overgrown.
This-- this whole riverside isn't maintained very well,
some really thick brush.
How he got out there-- probably came around from the other side
and got trapped in there.
There's a big drainage that runs all the way down this,
we call it, Bushy Lake.
It's about 15, 20 feet deep in some places.
And it's all overgrown.
- Can you hear him? [radio chatter]
- We can barely hear him, 'cause the helicopter.
- He's, like, right through there.
- [inaudible],, do you want to take a look down there?
I don't know if we're--
- Do you want to cut?
- We're gonna have to cut.
[inaudible]
- Do you have a small hatchet, like a little hatchet?
Well, yeah, but it's hard to swing anything in there.
So something small might be helpful.
- [inaudible]
- Come on, partner.
You're doing good.
- Take me to a hospital.
- What?
- To the hospital.
- What are we going to the hospital for, partner?
Let's get you out of the hole first.
What's up, man?
- [inaudible]
- Why don't you turn around for me, man.
- Turn around.
- For what?
For what?
- [inaudible] one behind you.
- Turn around for what?
[dog barking]
- We found the suspect down deep in-- deep in the overgrown
brush down there.
We had to do some kind of creative things
to get down to him and work him out.
He is in custody at this time through the cooperative effort
of us and County Sheriff.
They're going to take it from here.