Crews Make Swift-Water Rescue in L.A. River

Watch live: Crews rescued a man from the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village as a major storm traveled over Southern California on Nov. 27, 019. Sky5 was overhead. on.ktla.com/gIMuH #rescue

[@SteveF1967]

The boat isn’t powered. Its angle against the water will propel it across the current. It’s called ferrying. You can see when they go out they angle the bow toward the trees, and when they come in they angle it toward the shore. The crews on shore are maintaining the angle with the lines. Great work guys!

[@aquilezvailoyo4220]

Ojalá que no sea muy tarde para preguntar, pero cómo puedo encontrar más información al respecto?

[@kaleadreamaremylife7688]

It’s amazing to me that these heroes would put their lives on the line to help a perfect stranger 💕

[@reaganjones6815]

maybe she or he was drunk to

[@susanperkins1909]

Wow. Incredible. Painful to watch but great strategy gentlemen. Job well done. Thank you KTLA 5 for staying on it until the end.

[@Kate-fi8oh]

From fires to floods.

[@frankmartin8471]

You can't argue with success, even if it took a couple of attempts.

[@KM00Youtube]

how on earth did he get there and with water filling up, why??

[@shannonwashburn4126]

What in tarnation was that clown doing falling in the L.A river? Im glad they were there for him. But what a punk!😑 im glad we have rescuers, makes me feel better. They were GREAT!

[@terryfrederick5965]

That boat has no motor

[@Epicgye]

It normally does, they just take the engine off to transport the boat. I guess they didn't put it on cause they were scared of the engine being swept away by the river, and it most likely won't be too effective in those currents anyway.

[@Sea-Bass]

It’s a year later but a motor wouldn’t do any good in water that fast.

[@greentrees1226]

What happen with the helicopter

[@zachpace6497]

why did he not swim it

[@gwengreene6925]

The water is going about 35-40 mph.... Its flippin' scary to be it that situation!! I was one of 4 ppl rescued on 11/21/16... From my point of view it seemed like the raging water of the Colorado River!!

[@frankz3908]

A drone would've done a much cleaner job.

[@coryrogan8768]

This is a great example of exactly how not to approach a situation.

[@zachpace6497]

looked like no one new what they were doing

[@Sea-Bass]

Welcome to water rescue, it’s organized chaos.

[@noelanenberg7703]

Including the reporter who called the victim a ‘patient’ and called the line used to the raft off an ‘anchor!’ Was this show sponsored by ‘Affirmative Action?’

[@noelanenberg7703]

The subject being rescued was not ‘yet’ a ‘patient.’ he was a ‘victim.’ The rescue boat was not ‘anchored.’ It was tied down’ with a ‘line.’ The reporter sounds like a nice guy but he needs to get his GED and learn the proper names for the objects in his reportage. Lots of courage is reguired to enter fast water on a rubber boat. Kudos! ‘But!’ the rescue seemed to be an amateur act. Sending one firefighter out on from the wrong bank in an inadequately powered boat to breach a tree trunk obstacle seemed to place the firefighter at risk. The two man plan worked brilliantly in the still water up stream from the victim.