FOX Weather meteorologist Bob Van Dillen heroically saved a woman trapped in a flooded car during Hurricane Helene in Atlanta Friday morning.
Van Dillen spoke with “Fox & Friends” during the amazing moment.
“I know that we’re swamped here with all of the 911 calls, because there are so many high-water rescues that we’ve already documented so far… [she] called 911 and, five minutes, 10 minutes, and you could hear screaming, right? You could hear through my live shot, real loud” Van Dillen told Steve Doocy.
“That’s her car right there,” Van Dillen added with a car that was almost completely submerged in the background. “So I just said, ‘You know what? I realize I’m with you guys on the air, but I can’t let it go.’”
Van Dillen “dropped everything” to help the woman get to safety.
“I took my wallet out of my pants, and I went in there, waded in, got chest deep,” Van Dillen said as he was told by Janice Dean not to be humble about the heroic effort.
“You know how it is. I was concerned that one, maybe there was a nice swift current, but the current really wasn’t that bad. But, the water temperature I was afraid of, too. The water temperature is probably about 80 [degrees]. So, all of those things were working pretty nicely, so, that being said, the water came up to about my chest,” Van Dillen added.
“She was in there, she was still strapped into her car and the water was actually rising and getting up into the car itself, so she was about, almost neck deep submerged in her own car.”
Watch the moment below:
.@BobVanDillen Fox News Weather Meteorologist, stops his live weather report to rescue a woman screaming for help after her car got swamped by a flash flood. #Hero #Helene #Atlanta pic.twitter.com/eeh2EBIE6Q
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