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Drone rescues couple trapped Lochbuie sinkhole
BY OLIVIA YOUNG CBS 4
A miraculous rescue happened June 24 in morning east of Lochbuie. Two people were trapped upside down in a sinkhole as water lled their car. eir unexpected savior? A teenager with a drone hobby.
“I y down here all the time just looking,” said 18-year-old Josh Logue. Saturday morning, Logue ew his drone over a nearby Denver Hudson Canal, usually a dry creek bed, but due to recent rain, it’s a owing river. His dad and neighbor looked on.
Suddenly, he noticed a sinkhole where Weld County Road 2 crosses the canal, with something inside it.
“I said, ‘What is that?’ And I ew down over it and it’s a car in the hole,” said Logue. ey immediately got in their car and drove to the site. His neighbor, Ryan Nuanes, just so happens to be the assistant re chief at the Denver Fire Department. ey found a Jeep Cherokee with its horn going o , at least 6 feet down a massive sinkhole. e couple said they were submerged in water with only 6 inches of breathing room.
“I never expected this on my day o ,” said Nuanes.
“When I rst came down here, I wasn’t expecting someone to be in the car,” said Logue. But then they heard voices.
“ ere ended up being two people, a man and a woman, that were trapped inside the car upside down,” said Nuanes.
“ e concern that I had, as a reghter, was that this river was gonna swell even more and it was going to
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