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NORTH HILLS, LOS ANGELES () — Two men and a woman were rescued from the rain-swollen Pacoima Wash in the North Hills Thursday as one of the first significant rainstorms of the season soaked Southern California.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded about 9 a.m. Thursday to 15012 W. Parthenia St., east of Sepulveda Boulevard, and rescued the woman. She was in stable condition when taken to a hospital.
A man was also confirmed to be in the water, and a helicopter crew plucked him from the rushing floodwater in the area as other crews staged for additional possible rescues downstream, said LAFD spokeswoman Lyndsey Lantz.
He was flown directly to a hospital, Lantz said.
A short time later, firefighters using a ladder truck hoisted a third victim from the wash as he clung to a bridge abutment near Saticoy Street, she said.
Bystanders had reported a possible total of four people in the water, but a search turned up no additional victims, and the LAFD later concluded there were only three patients.
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