A Marin County deputy is being called a “hero” on social media after rescuing a motorist trapped in a car that was rapidly filling with water during this week’s storms, an event caught on the deputy’s body camera and shared by the Sheriff’s Office.

In a dramatic rescue during a major storm fueled by an atmospheric river, a Northern California deputy saved a driver trapped in her vehicle after it plunged into a flooded creek near Port Reyes Station,

A deputy broke the rear window of a car to rescue its driver after her vehicle went off the road and into a flooded creek, Northern California deputies said.