2 people, dog rescued from sinking truck at LA-area marina

By iNFOTEL
August 20 2018 02:08 PM

CP1555977738 — This Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018 photo provided by the Long Beach Fire Department shows a truck that barreled through a railing at the parking lot at Alamitos Bay Marina in Long Beach, Calif. Bystanders and lifeguards jumped into the water to save two people and a dog from the sinking pickup truck after it crashed through a metal railing at the Southern California marina. (Long Beach Fire Department via AP)

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Bystanders and lifeguards jumped into the water to save two people and a dog from a sinking pickup truck after it crashed through a metal railing at a Southern California marina.

Video shared by a witness on Saturday shows people scrambling to pull the dog, the woman and then the man from the pickup as it rapidly fills with water.

Jeff Jones, who took the video and ran to the lifeguard station to get help, tells KCBS-TV the truck barrelled through the railing at the parking lot at Alamitos Bay Marina in Long Beach, south of Los Angeles.

Authorities say nobody was hurt.

The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known.

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