Tools used to trap ash and debris and filter out potential contaminants before they entered the storm drain system proved helpful, according to the Department of Public Works.
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we were shouting to him from an expansion joint right through the side here. our rescue company, too. you see a little gap there. so there was no way. we had to pull one of our rescuers up from trying to go underneath this bridge. he was backed up by a whole mess of rat s nest, we call it, full of debris and the flood debris that was coming down. so we pulled him back and said, there is no way he s going back there. if he did, he s dead. reporter: yeah. i ll tell ya what, heroic. pulled him back. we said, let s get this going. we had deputy chief mccombs here, who drove the rescue truck here to us with our heavy rescue tools. we re part of a regional effort called the metro urban strike team. you saw our strike team. we have jackhammers, diamond saws, core drills, all that stuff. so we dropped the spy here and hoped he was right there, kind of estimated because we never saw him. we popped a hole right down here with our core drill. got our video camera on a pole.