SEE IT: Video Captures Dramatic Rescue After Car Crashes Into Susquehanna River

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HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. (WJZ) — A man’s beingness is saved by a rescue diver and vessel squad attached to Harford County’s unpaid firefighters and a camera caught it all.

Out of the country of her eye, Kailee Kelter saw a car spell disconnected the dock and into the h2o and she instinctively hits record.

“I could spot him moving astir successful the car and trying to fig retired what to do, conscionable sheer panic,” Kelter said.

On Sunday, Kelter was wrapping up a promotional sprout with the Susquehanna Hose Company’s Rescue and Dive Boat Team. They had already completed their mock rescue erstwhile they headed successful to dock the vessel and a existent exigency unfolded.

“But they rescued him and they saved his beingness successful similar 2 minutes,” said Kelter.

Capt. Marty Walsh was the rescue diver and said the aged operator was going underwater, trapped successful the car and incapable to escaped himself.

“I went successful aft him, unit was excessively overmuch for maine to beryllium capable to unfastened it arsenic it was inactive floating,” said Walsh.

The dive squad busted the model and pulled him to safety.

“I got ahold of him conscionable arsenic the car went under,” Walsh said.

Life-saving enactment done successful a substance of seconds, acknowledgment to hours of grooming and dedication to helping others.

“Had we not been determination the conveyance would person gone nether which much than apt would not person had a affirmative outcome,” Walsh added.

For Kelter, who often films the aftermath of the grooming aspects of these jobs, she present feels she has a overmuch deeper and much idiosyncratic appreciation for the men and women who unpaid to prevention the lives of full strangers.

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Kelter said she hopes this shines a airy connected the unpaid departments truthful they tin get much assemblage enactment — whether it beryllium donations, meals, much volunteers.