Swift Water Rescues Keep McKinney First Responders Busy
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MCKINNEY (CBS11) — Firefighters got a big thank you from a four-legged swift water rescue victim. The dog's owner was also one of two people who had to be rescued in McKinney as high waters kept first responders busy all morning.
Neighbors who live along County Road 317 in McKinney have come to expect some level of flooding, but never quite like this.
"There was a lot of rainfall in May, and I mean the bridge was overflowed, but it wasn't nearly this fast-moving, and there wasn't this much water then," said Adam Traczek, who lives on one of many flooded roads in McKinney.
Firefighters responded to multiple swift water rescues.
A man called for help from a tree near Eldorado Parkway and College Street when he and his dog got caught up in flood waters. Firefighters tell us the man wasn't even sure of his location, so they had to use pings off his cell phone to find him.
Firefighters had to rescue a woman from her car when high waters rose over McIntire Road. Soon after that call first responders headed to a soccer complex parking lot just west of Highway 75 when they got a call of a man trapped in his vehicle, but by the time firefighters arrived, the man was gone.
The sight of submerged vehicles led to repeat emergency calls. Traczek said when his family called about a submerged car near his home, dispatchers told him they had already cleared it, something he was grateful to learn.
"I didn't know what to do. My truck, it wouldn't have made it even halfway out there," Traczek said.
"Tie a line, swim out, bring him back, whatever it takes," his mother, Theresa Traczek, added.
The Sheriff's Department said one of its deputies was able to rescue the driver of the car near the Traczek home without having to bring out the swift water rescue team.
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