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    A canoe, a rope and a swimmer: Rescuing Californians stranded by recent violent storms

    by Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times Jan 15, 2023 6 minutes
    Rescue crews assist stranded residents in a flooded neighborhood in Merced, California, on Jan. 10, 2023.

    LOS ANGELES — The woman clung to a tree in pitch darkness. Nearby, her gray pickup was submerged in murky, brown water.

    She was trapped along a fair-weather bridge, a causeway built over Coyote Creek just north of Ventura. The creek had overflowed and flooded the crossing after a powerful storm barreled into the area last Monday.

    About 100 feet away, voices called out over the rushing water. Hold tight, they told her. A rescue swimmer is coming.

    The job of getting the stranded, soaking-wet woman to safety fell to the Ventura County Fire Department's swift water rescue team. Their tools, rope and a canoe.

    Up and down California, rescue teams such as Ventura's have come to the aid of people stranded in flooded neighborhoods and trapped in cars after a series of winter storms battered California over the few past weeks.

    Although hundreds of people have been rescued, there have been in California. Last week, Gov. Gavin

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