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FITCHBURG, Mass. — A elderly man and woman — belted into their submerged, overturned Buick — were saved this morning by cops and firefighters who jumped in the frigid Nashua River and fought to right the car and get them out.
“They’re very fortunate that car was able to be flipped over,” Fitchburg Fire Capt. Brian Murchie said of the herculean effort by approximately eight firefighters, police officers and EMTS. “They were fighting the current and lifting a four-door sedan from its roof. Neither one of them had a pulse at the time. En route to the hospital, they both regained a pulse.”
Murchie said the couple — a man, 85, and woman, 80, both of Fitchburg — have the same last name, but it was not immediately clear what their relationship was.
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