You hear the advice all the time: Don’t drive through high water.

There was an unusual rescue on the west side Monday, from what unfortunately has become an all too common situation.

Three people were stranded on the way to school, two teenage girls and their mother, stuck in their SUV as they tried to drive down a flooded street.

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A mom and her daughers were able to get out of their flooded vehicle.

“Apparently they thought they’d get through it, and now they’re stranded down there,” said Mark Palmer, Westlake Fire Dept. Chief.

To get them out, the Westlake Fire Department gave them life jackets. And one-by-one they waded to a flatbed wrecker which then drove them the rest of the way.

Safe, but wet, the Endicott sisters didn’t think the water was all that high.

“Other cars were going through it. We thought we could, but…” said Carlye Endicott, rescued from car.

“Well there are cars like passing us and they said we could make it but she was driving too fast and it got in the engine,” Sarah Endicott said.

Their mother was driving the car.

They ended up stuck just a quarter-mile from the school, rescued, with a story to tell.

They also learned a lesson about what not to do when the waters start rising.

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Good Samaritans came to the rescue of the mother and her two daughters.