Edward Cunningham struggled to try to save Dreyer. “It’s a horrible thing,” he told CNN. “It was forcing him down while it was forcing me up. It was pushing me out of the hole, and I weigh 220 pounds.”
It took nearly 5 minutes to turn the water off, according to officials.
“This is probably the first time I’ve heard this happen,” said Lt. Channing Taylor of the Florida Highway Patrol, “where somebody hits a fire hydrant and drowns, or possibly drowns.”
Dreyer was taken to a local hospital, where he died. Wednesday was his 89th birthday.
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