PHOENIX — Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) workers formed a human chain to save a woman from a canal in Gila Bend on Wednesday morning, the transportation authority announced Thursday.

Ray Ruiz, a lead highway operations technician with ADOT, told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Thursday that him and his team of five highway maintenance technicians were at an ADOT maintenance yard early Wednesday morning when they heard a sound and decided to investigate.

The co-workers set out in three vehicles and headed towards the canal adjacent to the yard.

When the ADOT workers first arrived, they didn’t see anything in the canal but could still hear someone yelling something indistinguishable and continued to search.

“We make our way out about a quarter of a mile … (and) that’s where I see a wom

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