A woman is on the mend after her car took a dive into Deer Valley Pond in Park City last Friday evening, sparking a rapid rescue response. Park City Police Department, alongside Park City Fire Department responders, rushed to the pond's edge near Parking Lot #5 following reports at about 7:40 p.m. of a vehicle submerging. According to ABC4, they arrived to find a woman, unresponsive, inside the quickly sinking car.
Police at the scene, reported by Gephardt Daily, were joined by Wasatch County Search and Rescue Dive Team to manage the extraction of the vehicle from the aquatic depths. With the car in the water and the woman’s life hanging in the balance, the rescue team managed to retrieve her from the vehicle and performed CPR until she was breathing independently again.
Following the successful resuscitation, the victim was airlifted to a hospital in the Salt Lake Valley, showing signs of stability, an outcome that could have been skewed toward the tragic had the emergency response not been as swift. “The woman eventually began breathing on her own,” Park City Police Department Lt. Danielle Snelson told Gephardt Daily. The condition of the woman, beyond her stabilized state, was not elaborated upon.
An ongoing investigation is peeling back the layers to determine the causative events leading to the near-drowning. As per KSL, the Wasatch County Search and Rescue Dive Team made short work of retrieving the vehicle, dispatched immediately, and responded to pull it from the water. Their proficient actions contributed to the unfolding narrative of a rescue that, for the moment, has averted the permanent silencing of another human heartbeat.
