Local emergency crews handled two different incidents that developed almost simultaneously in different parts of Lyon County on Monday morning.
Both incidents happened around 7:30 am, with a water rescue in the 1600 block of Road G and a rollover crash in the 3000 block of L near Allen. For the water rescue, Emporia Fire Capt. and Water Rescue Team member Willie Ward says the currently-unnamed driver went around barricades with G closed between 160 and 170 due to flooding. The driver had water up to the hood outside the pickup truck and the dashboard inside it.
Ward says Emporia Fire got a boat and was able to get the driver to dry land without any issues.
With the wreck, Lyon County Sgt. Zach Shafer says 65-year-old Matthew Lanzrath of Allen was driving an SUV southbound and crashed when he reached for something in his vehicle. The SUV went into the west ditch, overcorrected, went across the road into the east ditch, overcorrected again and went back into the west ditch before rolling once.
An ambulance took Lanzrath to Newman Regional Health with unspecified injuries. He was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.
Emporia Fire and Allen-Admire Fire also responded to the crash.
8 am Monday: Law enforcement, emergency responders dispatched simultaneously to water rescue and injury crash
Local emergency crews and law enforcement authorities are working at overlapping emergency scenes Monday morning.
Two incidents developed almost simultaneously around 7:30 am. Emporia Fire and Lyon County deputies were dispatched to a water rescue in the 1600 block of Road G — an area listed as closed due to flooding by the Lyon County Highway Department — while Emporia Fire joined Allen-Admire Fire in responding to a reported rollover injury crash on Road L just south of Road 300.
Details about both incidents are currently pending. KVOE and KVOE.com will have updates.
