Deepizzaguy
A male driver whose name was not released is very thankful that Piute County (Utah) Sheriff Marty Gleaves is one law enforcement officer who is very creative in performing rescues of persons who are in need of his help to get out of trouble.
The male driver was on state highway 89 on Friday evening near midnight when he lost control of his auto and he managed to crash his auto into the Sevier River.
The driver managed to get out of his auto and get on top of the roof of his auto without a cellphone to ask someone for help at the time of the accident.
However despite many attempts by other bystanders to attempt to rescue the driver who was on top of his roof which failed, Piute County Sheriff Marty Gleaves was in the area on Saturday morning when he saw that his services were needed to rescue the driver who spent the overnight hours on top of his auto trapped since the severity of the river was too rough for the driver to attempt to swim to shore.
Sheriff Gleaves did not have any of his equipment to make a rescue of the driver who was trapped on top of his auto that was trapped in the river. What Sheriff Gleaves did was to use his expertise in using a lasso to have it connect to the waist of the driver.
The driver then placed the rope around his waist as the sheriff dragged the stranded driver from the top of the roof of his auto to make it to shore safe and sound.
The driver of the auto was then taken to a local hospital to be treated for hypothermia before he was released from the hospital after a few hours.
It goes to show you that sheriff’s who work and live in areas like the country sides of our nation are resourceful in executing rescues by using their skills that they use in rodeo competitions.
or you could just stay away from places where you might need to be rescued with rodeo moves
That is a logical way to look at it.
real safety lies in controlling the danger
That’s a cool way to rescue people.
It is odd to see that a sheriff uses a lasso to rescue someone who was trapped on top of his auto.
That was a scary night for the guy, good for the rescue.
I know what you mean since being trapped on top of a roof of an auto all night long can be a scary experience.
Yes indeed I cannot imagine.
Thank goodness the sheriff as well as several people did their part to assist the lonely driver in his time of need.
Probably he had to go through the training of rescuing people in various situations.
He just showed that he was clever here.
Sheriff Gleaves is one law enforcement officer who is very clever in using another method to rescue a stranded driver when his normal equipment was not in use at the time of the rescue.
There is always another way to solve problems!
You have a great point there Doc.
Interesting and heart touching .
Sheriff Gleaves using a lasso to rescue a driver who was stranded is very odd.