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then trap those people underwater,” said Nuanes.
Brighton Fire Rescue and the Adams County Sheri ’s O ce responded quickly, using Logue’s truck to pull the car up enough to free the couple.
“In my 25-year experience as a re ghter, this was the most real and most dire extrication that I’ve seen,” said Nuanes.
e couple was driving home to Keenesburg when the crash happened Saturday around 9:15 a.m., just 15 minutes before Logue spotted them on his drone, according to Colorado State Patrol.
“If the water rose just a little bit more, it would have been a recovery, not a rescue,” said Nuanes.
Nuanes says the road was closed the night before because it was washed out elsewhere, meaning there would have been even less of a chance of the couple being found. e two people in the Jeep were taken to the hospital. e driver, a 66-year-old man, has serious injuries. But thanks to a teenager’s hobby, they’re both alive. education.
“It must have happened sometime between last night when they closed the road, and this morning when the car drove into it, that the sinkhole developed and nobody knew about it,” said Nuanes.
A photo taken by Nuanes shows the Jeep completely upside down and inside that sinkhole.
“A young man with the drone really saved some people’s lives, `cause you couldn’t see this vehicle except for an aerial shot,” said Nuanes.
Adams County crews began lling the hole Saturday, but they say it could take weeks before the road is safe to open again.
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