A training exercise turned into a real-life rescue for the Johns Creek swift water rescue team Monday night.
Johns Creek spokeswoman Rosemary Taylor said the team was training on the Chattahoochee River near the Jones Bridge Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area when they heard calls for help.
They found five teenagers -- four girls and a boy -- stranded in the river. Three were rescued immediately and two others were pulled from the river about 100 yards downstream, Taylor said.
None of the teens was injured, she said. The Roswell fire department assisted in the rescue, which took place around 9 p.m.
Taylor called the incident "basically a very scary situation which was handled very quickly and professionally."
The incident comes less than two weeks after a 9-year-old girl drowned in the river.
Anna Van Horn was floating on inner tube rented from a licensed company, with a life preserver, when she drowned June 3, possibly due to a change in the river’s flow after a water release from Buford Dam.
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