Nine people were trapped in the riverbed in San Diego as Hilary pummeled Southern California Sunday night.
The San Diego Fire-Rescue responded to the riverbed near the Morena Boulevard Bridge. The nine people who were safely pulled from the water are not believed to be injured.The water rescue in San Diego comes during the same day as two people were pulled from a river in Ventura County during Hilary.
Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages.Officials did not say how they ended up in the water in the first place. The water rescue comes as California deals with its first tropical storm since 1939., adding chaos to a day when California is taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to tropical storm response.
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