There Are no Flags In Underwater Vehicle Extraction
By Walt “Butch” Hendrick and Andrea Zaferes The Miracle Girl scenario: At 9:00 on the night of February 25, 1985, a van with five young passengers sped down a city street, and then lost control. It flew off of a ten-foot-high embankment, and plunged into fifteen feet of water in the Mill Basin Creek in Brooklyn, New York. Having recently completed underwater vehicle extrication training with Hendrick, Firefighters of Rescue Company 2,...