you're certain you weren't having hallucinations alber i only wish that were true its been most disturbing. i would have called dr higgins but i didn't have the opportunity. i'll call him now. very good miss barbara. [rotary dial] [music] hello dr higgins please this is barbara foster. not a word to anybody albert. oh heavens no miss barbara. hello matt look i'm at fred's-- no he isn't here. he took a plane for st louis. well that is extraordinary. well don't be unduly alarmed it may be only a passing aberration we'll see when he gets back, let me know the moment he arrives. and let me warn you barbara no matter how strangely he acts don't antagonize him. humor him indulge him. remember you're dealing with someone who is ill perhaps very ill. now you understand now don't you barbara

responding to a call from another firefighter, sheriff major rick albers arrives on scene. the officer has just completed training. >> from my experience in training in swift water rescue, he wasn't going to be able to be pulled up just by his arms. he would have had to almost put him in half to get him up from that position. >> myself and a sheriff's deputy determined the only way we were going to get him out of the water was to pull him back up stream away from the bridge to get him out. because i was not working trying to pull him straight up. >> on bunker pants they have suspenders that go up and i was able to feel down the suspenders and be able to grab as much as i could of the bunker pants and pull. >> with all his might, major albers yanks the fireman back up stream, but the water-logged man is so heavy, he's pulling the officer in, too. >> just at that moment, a former paramedic grabs the major. >> she grabbed ahold of my legs which really helped me at that time. i will never forget it. i was able to pull up enough and get his lower body upstream and pull him up en