Multiple units respond and successfully rescue a person trapped in a car in high flood water.

This afternoon at around 12:30pm, the Dearing Fire Department along with Coffeyville Fire Department, Coffeyville Police Department and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office responded to Eldridge and South Buckeye for an occupied vehicle stuck in flood waters. Upon arrival members of the CFD’s swift water rescue team entered the water and safely escorted the subject to dry ground.

After that call was completed, just after 1:00pm, Dearing FD responded to a small grass fire located on County Road 2000 east of Dearing. The fire department says it appears that during the overnight storms an electric pole was struck by lightning and part of the smoldering embers fell to the ditch and started the dead grass on fire.