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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Two Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service firefighters have been placed on routine administrative leave after their $1.5 million ladder truck became stranded in a creek during a rescue on June 10.
According to a Fire and Rescue Service press release, fire and rescue personnel were responding to a report of a car stuck in flood waters near West Baltimore Road in the Ten-Mile Creek area of Clarksburg at about 6:30 p.m.
As they were arriving at the scene, the fire crew encountered the people who had originally been trapped in the car. They got out on their own and told the firefighters there was no one else in the car.
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