GLOBE, AZ (AZFamily) — An Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) employee is being credited for helping first responders save a teen during the deadly flash floods in Globe last month.

The flash floods that began the afternoon of Sept. 26 tore through the Globe-Miami area over multiple days and killed at least three people and left widespread damage to the rural Gila County community.

Karl Lopez, an ADOT lead maintenance technician based in Superior, was one of many trying to assist residents during the floods that first night.

He was driving on Jesse Hayes Road on the way to a flooding call outside of Globe when two or three feet of floodwater and a stalled pickup truck blocked the roadway.

An ambulance was en route to an severely injured teen boy, but also got stuck at th

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