When one Texas father heard that a deadly tornado was heading straight for his home, he immediately packed up his pickup truck with his two young children and headed for safety.
However, in his attempt to save them, he nearly lost baby Marshal and two-year-old Addy when he lost control of the vehicle and flipped off the road. “Life comes at you in a blink of an eye,” dad Phillip Ocheltree said. “Last night leaving our home trying to get away from what was yet to come we hydroplaned off the highway.
The Chevrolet pickup landed upside down and quickly started filling with the raging floodwater, but thankfully other drivers on the highway pulled over, waded into the water, and got to work rescuing the family. The strangers worked together breaking windows with a sledgehammer and trying to pry open the door. Eventually, a rescuer managed to pull the unconscious baby out and handed him to Tom Mitchell, who had been filming the rescue since he was too weak to enter the floodwater.
“The infant is white, going blue-ish grey,” Tom said of the terrifying moment the baby was handed to him. “No color at all and the eyes were not focused when I looked down at her. This baby is gonna die if we don’t start CPR fast. Having a negative feeling coming over me. This baby may not make it, this baby may not make it. No reaction, nothing is happening.”
As Tom started to fear it was too late, a woman stepped behind him and began to pray. “Dear Jesus, please let this baby breathe. Dear Jesus, please let this baby breathe,” she said. “Well the first prayer she said, I felt a response in that child,” Tom said.
Miraculously, the group was able to rescue and revive the two children before they were rushed to the hospital where doctors believe they will make full recoveries. “I can’t thank you all enough who came into the water and saved my children, you’re a blessing thank you all so much,” Ocheltree said in an update to his Facebook. “I think it shows how the community and strangers all come together,” Tom said.
Watch the entire video below to see the incredible moment these brave heroes rescued these little kids.
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Heroes Save Kids From Flipped Truck Filling With Floodwater is an article from: LifeDaily