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Pizza delivery driver swept away by Arizona floodwaters

August 8, 2005

KVOA-TV: Tucson (Ariz.) Fire Department emergency crews were dispatched to a river rescue after a sudden downpour Aug. 7. The unlucky driver, a pizza delivery man, was swept  in a matter of minutes and was trapped with soggy pizzas in a soggy car.

The driver was not injured and back at his employer's place, Bianchi's Italian, the deliveries churned on during the torrential storm. "People don't want to leave their houses and so the phones just [rang] off the hook," said Vincent Bianchi, the pizzeria's owner.

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