Woman rescued on New Year’s Day in flooding emergency at Lake Hodges

ESCONDIDO, Calif. (CNS) – San Diego County Fire-Rescue personnel rescued a woman Thursday who was swept into a creek by heavy rain waters that flowed into Lake Hodges in Escondido.

Deputies with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office San Marcos station were dispatched at about 8:10 a.m. Thursday to a water emergency after a man reported that he and his wife had entered the lake’s ground at a low-water crossing near the roadway.

About an hour later, the couple returned to the same crossing and found the rains had flooded the area…

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