find the guy initially, and when i turned on the spotlight, i see the man later identified as michael arnold in a wheelchair. he just looked stuck. >> he had been dropped off by a city bus when he was on the way home when he was caught in a fast-moving storm. his electric chair was not waterproof. >> i was really scared that my chair would shutdown, and i would have no one to help me. i called 911 and it was raining so loudly that i had to literally scream into the microphone for them to understand me. i was thinking that please, god, keep me alive. have someone come and help me. anyone. i don't care. >> help comes in the form of officer benitez. >> when he got there i said, okay, we have to get you out of here, and he said, my battery is stuck. i said, all right, we get you the safety. >> but it is easier said than done. and it took a while, because he had the brakes on, and it is jammed and all i could think of it is metal wheelchair and with the lightning, not a good situation for anybody. >> i was trying to tell him that i had to get the chair off power to manual mode so he could push me