- Florida authorities launched footage exhibiting a deputy getting sucked right into a drainage pipe throughout a flood rescue.
- The footage exhibits the deputy being submerged in speeding water for about 30 seconds earlier than resurfacing.
- “Are you able to f–ing imagine what simply occurred to us?” the deputy requested a person who was additionally sucked into the pipe.
A Florida sheriff’s deputy tried a daring rescue of a motorist who stranded in a torrential downpour, and his physique digicam footage captured the second he obtained sucked right into a drainage pipe and carried 100 toes earlier than resurfacing.
The video from Escambria County Deputy William Hollingsworth’s digicam was revealed Saturday, and exhibits Hollingsworth exiting his car and heading over to what seemed to be a automobile caught in rising waters.
Abruptly, the digicam’s lens submerges beneath the water, and over 30 seconds elapses with nothing however a black display and the sound of speeding water.
Finally Hollingsworth rises out of the water and goes to help a person mendacity on the grass, panting, having simply escaped the identical drainage pipe.
“Are you able to f–ing imagine what simply occurred to us?” Hollingsworth asks the person. “Simply breathe, brother. Oh my god, thanks Jesus.”
The Escambria County Sheriff’s Workplace praised Hollingsworth’s “distinctive braveness” in a public assertion on Saturday, and stated each Hollingsworth and the person had been fortunate to be alive.
Hollingsworth and the person had been each swept 100 toes, beneath the four-lane roadway of Freeway 98, earlier than being spat out on the opposite aspect.
“Deputy Hollingsworth witnessed the citizen go underwater and rushed to his support with out regard for his personal security,” the assertion stated.
Hollingsworth’s physique digicam footage additionally captured him describing the incident to his colleagues afterwards.
“He was over there, and I used to be having him come throughout, and he goes down. And I’m going in after him. I obtained sucked in,” Hollingsworth stated.
The person might be seen profusely thanking Hollingsworth for risking his life to assist him.
“Thanks for being there after I got here up. After I got here out, you had been proper behind me,” he informed Hollingsworth. “You and me, man. We have this expertise for all times, and I recognize you, brother.”