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Police said 13 units were dispatched in dense fog to try to locate the drowning woman.First responders managed to reach the drowning woman just in time.

A drowning Florida woman was rescued Tuesday from a muddy, flooded ravine after a desperate search by first responders in dense fog.

Amanda Antonio, 33, found herself fighting for her life after her as she drove near Tampa's Florida State Fairgrounds around 4 a.m. Tuesday, WFTS reported. She told authorities she was cut off by another driver before she flipped her vehicle.

As the SUV began to sink in the soggy ditch, mud and water began to raise up to Antonio's neck. The thick mud also prevented her from escaping the vehicle on her own accord.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said 13 units were dispatched in dense fog once they received her distress call.

"The water was rising and there was ," the sheriff's department noted in an Instagram post. "Our communications team did an incredible job of keeping her calm while 13 patrol units looked for her in the thick fog that was blanketing the area, making it difficult to find her."

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They managed to reach Antonio just in time and were able to free her from her muddy prison. She was transported to an area hospital with only minor injuries.

"All my muscles still hurt. I'm just thankful I didn't break anything, that I'm still here," Antonio told WFTS.

"All I remember is losing control of my car and flipping. And I just kept flipping until I stopped and I realized I was upside down. So I took my seatbelt off. I was upside down so the water was coming in where my head was," she said.

Alvarez noted that not all calls received on New Year's Eve end well.

"New Year's we usually have stories that are tragic. Bad accidents. Today was a great scenario where everything just came together the right way," Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokesman Daniel Alvarez told WFTS. "We fought the mud. We fought the weather. We fought the lack of knowing where she was. She came out alive because of a really good team effort."