A resident’s security camera and teamwork from various law enforcement agencies led to the rescue of a woman found nearly submerged in a pond after wandering from her car off Clear Lake Road on Saturday, Dec. 6.

Deputies responded about 10 a.m. to a report of a missing elderly woman who had driven from a residence in the Alvadore area west of Eugene, according to a news release from the Lane County Sheriff’s Office. 

Lane County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue volunteers, Eugene police and an Oregon State Police trooper with a police tracking dog, Buck, helped search for the woman.

A sheriff’s deputy canvassing the area near Kirk Pond spotted the woman on a resident’s security camera, leading searchers to focus on an area of thick brush. Kirk Pond is on the north side of Clear Lake Road, just north of Fern Ridge Lake,.

Within minutes, the tracking dog found the woman “almost completely submerged in Kirk Pond near the bank,” according to a sheriff’s office statement. The Oregon State Police officer and a search-and-rescue volunteer dove into the water and helped the woman to safety. She was treated for hypothermia and taken to a hospital.