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Thunderstorm, who increased the runoff on this particular day. >> but while sandbagging, three firefighters slip in. one who manages to hold on to a short brick wall is pulled to safety. a second, wearing a baseball hat, is also rescued by his colleagues. >> can you kick? >> but a third, todd neskiss is not so lucky. he's stuck on the bridge and no one is able to pull him up out of the powerful current. >> his legs catch under the bridge kind of like this, and his upper body is against this bridge and the water coming against his back is wanting to pull him under the bridge. he was starting to...

65 miles per hour or faster. and it's the arizona department of public safety's job to make sure commuters avoid its daily hazards. according to officer jeremy perry. >> as a patrol motor officer, most of my calls are what i deal relation, whether it's traffic stops, collisions, motorists helping individuals that are broken down on the freeway. >> november 16, 2011. during rush hour on the 101 loop a car is clipped by another vehicle, hits the wall and flips. the driver is okay. but her two small dogs in the car get spooked and bolt in opposite directions. one of them a shih tzu called muffin,...

In the car and it doesn't stop until it hits a tree, next to the first car that slid into the yard. all told, more than two dozen cars skitd past rhee's camera, ten of them suffering it damage. no one is seriously injured. when an officer arrives on scene to sort out this bad day in bountiful, he discovers that eight of the ten drivers involved in accidents came from a nearby town to attend a church function up the hill and were unfamiliar with the road. with a higher power likely still fresh in their minds, the fury of old man winter brings them quickly back to earth. >> people have asked don...

And the larger white suv smacks into the first plow on scene. all inside survive, but there are still more out-of-control vehicles right behind them. >> get out of the road! get out of the road! >> a driver just misses people running away on the sidewalk and lands in betty ian's front yard. >> i saw a woman barrel through our hedges. and i was afraid to look that she may have been seriously hurt. and when she stepped out of the car, it was just the biggest relief that she was okay. >> watch out, guys! here comes another one. >> but the icy hill will still claim one more vehicle. a full sized c...

Concerns -- hypothermia and water in his lungs. the team removes his cold, wet clothes as quickly as possible. todd is winded, but his airway is clear. major albers assists with one of the other firefighters who also fell into the freezing water. is. >> miraculously, there are no serious injuries that day. >> it was a group effort. if they wasn't able to hold on to him on that bridge, we would have been downstream looking for the fireman. >> georgetown first responders transform luck from this bad day into improvements for future swift water rescues. the hope is that they'll be able to rely le...