'We didn't have a lot of hope': First responders describe incredible Mesa canal rescue

  • Source: KVOA-TV NBC 4 Tucson
  • Published: 07/11/2018 06:45 PM

VIDEO: Over the past 48 hours we've seen some incredible images and videos following the first big monsoon storm of 2018 on Monday. But many would probably agree, one of the most incredible to surface was a Mesa canal rescue where a woman was saved from a submerged vehicle. A clip of the incident captured by Merrill Brimley has been viewed nearly 200,000 times. The first responder in the water is firefighter Kyle Kuball. “We didn't have a lot of hope at the time but it was still our job to try and find out,” he said. In the video, Kuball jumps into the canal where the car was submerged. “At that point, I kind of...I'd be recovering a body so I reached out and tried to unbuckle the seat belt and that's when somebody grabbed my hand,” he said.



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