A Marin County deputy is being called a “hero” on social media after rescuing a motorist trapped in a car that was rapidly filling with water during this week’s storms, an event caught on the deputy’s body camera and shared by the Sheriff’s Office.

As rain soaked the North Bay early Tuesday morning, a Marin County sheriff’s deputy successfully pulled a driver out of a car submerged in a flooded creek in a rescue that was captured on the deputy’s body camera.