Truck found submerged in canal near highway, Princeton IA


A truck was found submerged in a canal near US-67 highway. Fishermen spotted the vehicle in the water, and fire and rescue teams coordinated a response involving boats to handle the situation.
Audio|Source: Davenport and Quad Cities Metro Police, Fire / EMS
03:35
Transcript:
00:00
Stay on Maine for now. I'm still looking for the truck in the water.
00:18
SFD EMS. Respond to Stroke at (number withheld), 18th Avenue.
00:24
Service.
00:26
Dispatch, Chief One is the caller or the fisherman near the truck that's in the water.
00:35
Princeton Fire.
00:37
EMS Solo. Casey's Princeton.
00:40
At near US-67.
00:46
2 inch in the Island.
00:49
on Concord Street. I was just in that area and I was UTL. I see the notes that shows it's on,
00:55
it'll be north on the north side.
01:03
Receive, so I had to rescue four.
01:06
For far.
01:17
Supporting 208-211, complete furniture.
01:25
Chief 1,
01:30
they're actually in a boat if they're in the canal.
01:33
Can you all you drive by?
01:39
104, so when I saw the boats that were in the canal,
01:43
the fishermen, are they describing that the truck is down in that canal?
01:47
Yeah.
01:49
Okay, I'll hide back there.
02:00
Devon for truck 3. Fast Track EMS.
02:04
At (number withheld) Heather can drive.
02:06
You agree.
02:10
Two, one, you say that you can get home off of South Concord Street.
02:17
I'm back on in Shannon Island. Now I'm going to go back over to the bridge of the canal and see if I can get eyes on the truck.
02:28
John, Jonas, let me have.
02:32
Jonas, go ahead.
02:35
Keep on more routes, too, they can call us all this time, sir.
02:39
Jonas is toughar.
02:44
Go ahead for truck one.
02:50
We're going to need you to respond with Rescue Boat 1.
02:54
Give us a tow back to the dock.
02:57
See,
02:59
John, he can see you. He's saying stop right there. He can see both of them right at the entrance.
03:08
Bring one.
03:10
We're 104 on that. We'll be on our way.
03:14
This is right.
03:21
A fisherman is saying that he can take you in their boat if you want to where this is at. He can see you, and he sees you talking to someone else.
03:31
Yep, I've got eyes on the boat. We're going to work our way down a few houses.
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Location mentioned:
Near US-67, Princeton, IA 52768
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