Family Stranded In A Flash Flood

We got a call for a vehicle that got caught in a flash flood in Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef State Park. Shawn and I went in with Trailmater to get the vehicle and cleanup where the family had camped while they waited for rescue. We got to the vehicle and found it was fairly buried on the passenger side but luckily not high enough to get water in the engine. However the alternator was dead from being submerged. So to get the vehicle to run long enough to help get it out we had to run our welding leads and jumper cables out to reach. We got it out and swapped in one of Trailmater's batteries to get it to drive for awhile. With so many electronics in new vehicles and the alternator not working it only made it a few miles. We decided to just pull it back to the trailer. Unfortunately this vehicle was a rental and being as it spent a few days half submerged we knew it was totaled so we weren't worried about damaging anything by pulling it. Thank you everyone for watching and supporting us.


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