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Couldnt get the boat in and did a shore-based walk and found out that we could access her position from the river right side but we couldnt get the boat around there and that is when i figured i had some make-shift throw-bags and i lapped to be -- i happened to be wearing them and i had my pfd, my flotation device and we hooked them together and it was just enough length to make it to the tree to put a pfd or a life jacket on her and my shore crew pulled me in. >> just incredible. >> yeah it was...

The water? howd you get her out? >> i actually didnt see her. kurt shuttle and brad mason, two coworkers of mine happened to shine a light to see how high the river was getting, and they saw nothing but a hand waving. i said did you see that? they stopped, backed up and lit up the screen and they could hear her screaming. she spoke only spanish, they didnt know what she was saying but they knew she needed to get out of there quickly, she was in the water. it took a while, because the town was se...

Wearing them and thats all the gear that we had, was pfd, my flotation device and these little throw bags and we hooked them together and it was just enough length to make it to the tree to where i couldnt put a pfd or a life jacket on her, and then my short crew pulled me in. so they helped affect the rescue by -- yeah it was pretty harrowing. >> this is probably a dumb question but whats it like to be in water like that? i mean you know people ive talked to say, no one ever expects it to be as...