Rescuers dive into lake after woman in her 70s drives off boat ramp, WA officials say
Rescuers dove into a Washington lake to save a woman in her 70s who had driven off a boat ramp, fire officials said.
The incident was reported to rescuers at 10:48 a.m. Nov. 1 at Lake Stevens, the Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue said in a Facebook post.
A deputy and a police officer responded to the lake and jumped into the water to save the driver, officials said.
They pulled her to a dock where medics performed CPR on her.
Meanwhile, another rescuer dove into the water to make sure there were no other people in the sunken vehicle, officials said.
The woman was taken to a hospital after medics got a pulse.
“The circumstances of how the vehicle entered the water are currently unknown,” fire officials said.
An update on the woman’s condition was not available.
Lake Stevens is about a 35-mile drive north from Seattle.
