{"id":297260,"date":"2026-06-05T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297260\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:52:08","slug":"deputys-video-shows-incredible-rescue-from-sinking-car-in-pompano-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297260\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy\u2019s video shows \u2018incredible rescue\u2019 from sinking car in Pompano Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 5, 2026 at 10:47 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released a video on Friday showing a woman\u2019s rescue from a sinking car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detective Robert Rutkowski, Deputy Zachary Kerin, and Keith Costa, an off-duty Fort Lauderdale Fire captain, worked together on May 1 in Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe body-worn camera shows an incredible rescue. It shows the difference between how tragedy and survival was measured in just seconds. The driver is alive today because of their quick actions,\u201d Sheriff Dr. Gregory Tony said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheriff.org\/pio\/breaking-news\/seconds-to-spare-bso-deputies-pull-elderly-woman-from-sinking-car\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sheriff.org\/pio\/breaking-news\/seconds-to-spare-bso-deputies-pull-elderly-woman-from-sinking-car\/\">a statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kerin\u2019s hand was injured as he shattered the car\u2019s passenger-side window, so they could pull the woman out of the car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pompano Beach Fire Rescue personnel and other BSO deputies also responded to the canal in the area of South Palm Aire Drive and South Powerline Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rutkowski said he grabbed a flotation device from a deputy who had it ready to go, and he quickly jumped in the water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies had tied a yellow rope to the red flotation device, held it, and pulled it during the rescue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur job was to save a life; that\u2019s what we did,\u201d Rutkowski said, according to a video BSO released. \u201cWe were successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM Updated:\u00a0June 5, 2026 at 10:47 AM The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office released a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-297260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}