Car rescue draws a crowd

Water rescue crews searched for a driver's car that plunged into the canal the night before.

“We have as many people here for this as we do for canal days," joked one onlooker.

 
Hundreds gathered to see the rescue, and thanks to popular technology, capture the moment.

 “We all have cameras so it will be on the internet very soon,” said another witness.   

 
“This is absolutely amazing,” said Carol Quinn, “I don't know how I mean all the people here are trying to get this car out," she continued. But some didn't subscribe to the hype.

“I can't believe everybody is here for just a car in the canal,” said another woman who stopped by to watch, “I actually thought it was a person or something I never imagined it was just a car,” she continued.  

But for the Village of Spencerport- a town of a few thousand people- a driver plunging into the canal in the middle of the night is a rare site. As one witness put it, “The man who jumped in last night must be rated as a hero. To get that car out, especially it was at night. You couldn't see anything. he's just an unbelievable hero."

It took fire and scuba diving crews and the DEC about six hours to find and remove the car.

“As soon as the divers went into the water they found the vehicle very quickly after that," said Chief Douglass Nordquist with the Ogden Police Department.

“It's good to know someone got out first before this happened,” said another woman who watched with her three young children.