North Carolina man jumps into Helene flood waters to save trapped woman
A North Carolina man made a “calculated risk,” jumping into fast-moving, Helene-swollen waters to save a woman because he “couldn’t watch her die.”
A North Carolina man made a “calculated risk,” jumping into fast-moving, Helene-swollen waters to save a woman because he “couldn’t watch her die.”
Eddie Hunnell, 57, was in Grassy Creek ahead of son Austin Hunnell’s Saturday wedding when he saw floodwaters picking up Lesley Worth’s home.
Video footage captured onlookers standing on the banks of New River, screaming, “Are you there?” and “Jump!”
It soon became clear that Worth was stuck and Hunnell said his mind raced through the options.
“When it was happening, I was trying to make a calculated risk. How do we save her?” said Hunnell, who lives about 200 miles away in Holly Springs, just outside Raleigh.
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