A Kansas sheriff’s deputy had to be pulled from rushing floodwaters by fellow deputies after his patrol SUV was swept away while responding to a deadly rescue call near Wellington.
In a report for KAKE News, reporter Kate Devine described how a Saturday flooding emergency in Sumner County grew rapidly more dangerous after two drivers allegedly drove around road-closure barricades and entered water-covered South Oliver Road.
The incident left one person dead, another driver rescued, and a deputy’s patrol vehicle swallowed by floodwater…