PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Two Port St. Lucie police officers rescued an 87-year-old man from a canal bank as his vehicle was about to roll over on top of him.
"He was telling his daughter that he was in the water somewhere," K9 Officer Cory Krecic told WPTV.
The police officers said the man's cellphone calls offered a general area where he was, although it was after 11:30 p.m. Friday.
With the help of a St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office helicopter,
police found him in the Veranda Falls area on Becker Road, east of Florida's Turnpike.
Krecic and Officer Carson Perkins spotted the tilting car and then raced to pull the man up and away from the vehicle.
“He was sitting, actually, right underneath it and it was moving a little bit, so even the air unit was able to see that it looked like it was going to roll," Krecic said. "So we quickly jumped down there."
Perkins said the man was "cooperative" but disoriented.
A Port St. Lucie police spokesman said the rescued man is now in stable condition in a hospital.
"It was nice to get him out and able to get him to safety, get him to fire-rescue," Krecic said. "He actually had a smile on his face when he was away from everything."