Josh (18) suddenly sees an upside down pocket in a gutter with his drone and saves the lives of two of its passengers | outside

Josh Logue, 18, from rural Brighton, Colorado, is a true drone enthusiast. He has several drones and takes out his toys regularly. On Saturday morning, he decided to fly a drone over an area in his neighborhood that had recently experienced severe flooding after heavy rain. When he spotted a strange black hole on a bridge about 3 kilometers from his home, he got a little closer with his drone. He caught his breath. Is this … a car? Yes, a car … in a ditch.

The teen, who was in his driveway himself, had walked over to his neighbor Ryan Nuanes, 46, an assistant fire chief with the Denver Fire Department. Together, they travel to the bridge in question, which is on a deserted country road and crosses a canal. Under normal circumstances this channel is little more than a dry riverbed, but recent rains have turned it into a flowing river. Josh and Ryan arrive at the scene and see the jeep upside down in a watering hole. There were two people in the car. They needed help quickly.

“So we get there and we hear the horn get stuck,” Josh testifies to the New York Times. Tuuuuuuuuuuuut … “And the car is in the water.” By the sound of the horn, they suddenly heard someone shout, the man behind the wheel of the jeep shouts that there is still an air gap of about 15 cm for him and his wife, and shouts that the water is slowly but surely rising.

Josh and Ryan immediately called the emergency services. “My biggest fear as a firefighter was that the river would continue to swell and those people would get trapped underwater,” Nuanes told CBS News. “If the water gets a little higher, this will become a storage facility. No bailout.”

Several fire brigades have been deployed. The onrushing firefighters first cut through the metal undercarriage of the vehicle in order to reach the passengers. But they soon realized that this effort would take a long time. They also worry that the sinkhole, a hole at least 5 feet deep and about 10 feet wide, could fill with water. And so they take a different approach. They tie the jeep to a truck and then “roll” the jeep. Thus, they were able to open one of the doors of the car and get the passengers out.

According to The New York Times, the 66-year-old driver was seriously injured in the accident, and his 61-year-old wife was not seriously injured. They were taken to the hospital.

The couple were driving home in Kinsburg that morning when they were suddenly swallowed up by the earth around 9:15 am. They immediately fell upside down into the stream, drowning in the water. All that drama happened about 15 minutes before Josh Logue spotted them with his drone.

Fire Chief Colin Brent called the boy with the drone a “godsend” for the passengers. “I don’t know how long these people would have been there if that drone hadn’t flown,” he told the New York Times. The fire chief confirms it’s a country road with hardly any traffic and from the ground floor you can’t even see the crater until you get very close. And the air hole can also disappear with the slightest movement.

So everyone is sure: Josh saved these people’s lives.

Local crews immediately began filling in the sinkhole on Saturday, but it could be weeks before the road can be safely reopened.

According to the Washington Post, the young man hopes to become a professional drone pilot in the future. And he himself will never forget how his passion and quick reaction saved two lives. “It will be a story I will tell often,” says the teen.