Seventeen people were stuck in high water after heavy rains fell Saturday night near Freeport.

Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner says a caller reported that she and her husband were stuck in the water at the intersection of County Roads 157 and 172. When officers got to the scene a lot vehicles were surrounded by water. A small bus with 14 passengers was trapped in the water too. The driver of the bus, 54-year-old Richard Celestine Rosen of Albany, was injured, but managed to walk out of waist-deep water to a dry area along with all the passengers. Rosen was taken to the Albany Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Sanner adds the area received a large amount of rain just before the call. There were two other roads under water because of storms. Local fire departments and Stearns County Highway Department closed the roads.