PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2025 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and several other agencies responded to a dangerous, life-threatening situation Saturday afternoon and saved two people. PBCFR provided this statement to BocaNewsNow.com:
>>This afternoon 5 agencies worked together in a challenging rescue. At approximately 12:10 pm, PBCFR Units were dispatched to the general area of the 22000 block of Miami Canal Road in SW Palm Beach County. The initial call came in as a car in canal. The scene was about 5 miles west of US 27 on a dirt road on top of the canal bank. Access to the canal bank road was just north of the Broward County Line. Initial arriving units found a vehicle upside down near the canal. The vehicle was not in the canal, but it was embedded into the muddy shoreline.
There were two people trapped, one in the cab, and one person was under the vehicle itself. Additional units were called. The PBSO Eagle was instrumental in getting some of those rescuers to the scene quickly. The helicopter shuttled some Special Operations Firefighters and an EMS Captain rapidly to the scene while the additional ground units were still responding. The special operations members brought some advanced extrication tools, while the EMS Captain brought whole blood to the scene.
FWC officers were assisting with initial rescue attempts. BSOFR sent an airboat that checked along the canal for any additional victims. BSOFR also sent their medical helicopter. The HCD TraumaHawk Helicopter was also on scene. Special Operations Crews along with Battalion 7 crews worked to extricate the patients from the muddy crash. Once out of the wreckage, BSOFR’s helicopter transported one patient and the TraumaHawk transported the other, with both going to a local Trauma Center for care.<<
