Audio from near drowning of Los Angeles firefighter. Firefighter already out of the hospital after incident during LAFD training.

A veteran Los Angeles city firefighter, who trains firefighters in swift water rescue. had to be rescued himself. Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said the incident occurred near the Jensen Filtration plant in Mission Hills this afternoon.

Firefighter Dave Danielson was conscious and breathing when as he was airlifted to a hospital. Danielson has already been released and has talked to reporters (below):

UPDATED in excerpt from KTTV-TV:

A veteran Los Angeles firefighter who trains rookies on swiftwater rescue techniques nearly drowned during training exercises in an aqueduct in Sylmar today, but said he is OK.

“Everything worked ,” said firefighter Dave Danielson, 40, outside a nearby hospital two hours after the mishap.

Danielson was portraying a drowning person for trainees in a frothy section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct near its southern end today, when he went under for about 30 seconds,

“I hit my head pretty good, in fact, I have short term memory loss,” said Danielson to reporters, with his family standing next to him at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in nearby Mission Hills.

Earlier from Firefighter Close Calls:

A Los Angeles City Firefighter is in the hospital after getting trapped under the water in a concrete aqueduct during a swift water rescue training session today. The 40-year-old FF was rescued by his colleagues near a filtration plant. The firefighter was conscious and breathing following the close call when as he was airlifted to a hospital and is expected to survive.

Brian Humphrey, LAFD’s PIO says all of their Firefighters go through the training at the plant to prepare for swift water rescues in the city’s hundreds of miles of flood control channels. The Firefighters take turns rescuing each other and the man who was caught under water was one of the trainers running the exercise.

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