One-person died and two others were injured when the vehicle they were in drove around a road barrier and into flood waters, Friday night, in southwest Iowa. Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports Emergency personnel were called to the 3000 block of 250th street west of the town of Riverton, for two subjects who were trapped in the flood water hanging on to trees.

At approximately 9:50-p.m., the Fremont County Dispatch Center was called by a citizen that was checking the flood waters and could hear people yelling for help. The citizen called 911 and reported the information and emergency personnel were immediately dispatched to the scene. The responding units used a boat to get to the two subjects clinging to the trees and extracted them from the water.

55-year old Aleido Rojas Galan from Norfolk, NE was one of the subjects that were submerged in the water. Galan was flown by LifeFlight to a hospital in Lincoln, NE., where he died from injuries unknown. 50-year old Santiago Morosta also of Norfolk,NE., was able to pull himself out of the water and into a tree. He was being treated at a hospital in Omaha. A third man was located about one-half mile west of where Galan and Morosta were recovered. 52-year old Juan Luis Quennons of Norfolk,NE was located in a ditch near a residence trying to get warm. Quennons was picked up by a Deputy and then later transported by the Iowa State Patrol to Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg, to be treated for his injuries. He was later transferred a hospital in Omaha.

The investigation shows that the three males were traveling eastbound on 250th st and drove around a Road Closed barrier and continued until the hit the flood water, where at that time the current of the water swept the car away leaving the subjects no choice but to try and swim to safety. The three individuals were traveling from Norfolk to Florida to see family.

Fremont County Deputies were assisted by the following units: Iowa DNR, Sidney Fire and Rescue, Hamburg Fire and Rescue, Riverton Fire and Rescue, LifeNET, Iowa State Patrol, and Montgomery County EMA.