In Ohio, two wheelchair-using children rescued from fall into canal

From WLWT-TV:

PIQUA, Ohio -- Two children in wheelchairs are recovering after falling into a canal in Piqua Sunday.

The children were on a field trip with Wilder Intermediate School when the accident happened.

Officials said the two students rolled about eight feet, before their motorized wheelchairs tipped into the hydraulic canal at Upper Fountain Park.

"There was some people standing in the water trying to help her, a whole bunch of police, big fire trucks, all the ambulances, all that out here trying to get her out of the water," said 11-year-old Dylan Sowers, who witnessed the rescue.

Emergency crews were able to rescue the students. At least one of the students was taken to Children's Hospital in Dayton.

The Piqua Daily Call reached the school's superintendent Rick Hanes, who said he didn't yet know how the accident happened.