(EastTexasMatters.com) – A Texas woman is safe at home after a dramatic rescue Monday morning. She was stuck on the roof of her car, surrounded by rising floodwaters until firefighters pulled her to safety. The rescue was captured on camera.
Jackie Anderson was on her way to work in Johnson County, when she underestimated the strength of this fast-moving current.
Firefighters had no options for securing a safety line or tethering a boat. The firefighters had to swim out to Anderson and carry her to safety.
Corey Bauman of the Cleburne Fire Department who helped with the rescue explains: “We decided that we were going to swim across and get out to her, get her life vest, and then figure out how we were gonna move her back from there. We slid her off the car. I just told her to go ahead and get on my back, just wrap her arms around me and I was gonna get us out.”
Bauman describes the swim: “It was freezing, yes mam. We were all cold, especially when we got out and were standing around. That was the biggest fear for her on my aspect was that she was just continuing to be cold.”
