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(CNN) - "Siri, call 911".
That was what a man shouted in Charles City, Iowa, after his car sank in an icy river.
Gael Salcedo, 18, was heading to North Iowa Area Community College when his Jeep hit a piece of ice on the road, according to CNN affiliate KIMT station. Salcedo lost control of his car: he turned right and from there, everything went blurry, he said. However, his car collapsed on the Winnebago River.
“I didn't know where I was going and then I didn't know what to do. I just thought: 'I think I'm going to die,' ”he told KIMT.
Salcedo lowered the windows, worried that his car would sink. The ice and water around it were below freezing temperatures, according to KIMT.
He couldn't find his phone, so he did the following: he used Siri.
- "I am the original voice of Siri"
- Siri saved the life of a teenager trapped under a van
Salcedo, 18, is a student at a College in the North Iowa area.
Mason City Fire Department officials arrived at the scene quickly, but the current from the river pinned the driver's side door.
There were no other options: Salcedo had to leave, Lieutenant Craig Warner of the Mason City Fire Department told KIMT.
“My hands were freezing. I could no longer feel my legs, so I was struggling a lot and the water was so strong, ”Salcedo told KIMT. "I kept stumbling, I had the boy help me get up many times and used all my strength to get out of the water."
With Warner's help, Salcedo left the river and entered the ambulance. He was treated by shock and released from the hospital only a few hours later, according to KIMT.
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