Fox Weather’s Bob Van Dillen Stops Hurricane Report To Save Woman

Fox Climate’s Bob Van Dillen stopped reporting and began rescuing in Atlanta on Friday, when a girl cried for assist as rising floodwaters from Hurricane Helene stranded her in her automobile. (Watch the video beneath.)

Van Dillen at first tried to reassure the lady that he’d known as 911 and assist was on the best way, however the state of affairs escalated and he excused himself from the phase.

“I’m gonna go see if I may also help this woman out just a little bit extra,” he mentioned. “I’ll be again.”

Because the digital camera saved rolling, Van Dillen could possibly be seen serving to the lady out of her car and carrying her on his again in excessive water to a degree the place they might each wade out of bother.

“That man is a hero,” one of many “Fox & Pals” morning hosts mentioned.

Van Dillen defined to the Fox Information morning present how he talked the lady by means of the automobile escape and helped her safe her private objects. “She’s tremendous,” he mentioned, noting that the lady was initially chilly and shivering however was capable of heat up in his automobile. “She was in shock.”

His act of valor led to a cheerful reunion.

“Her husband picked her up, and she or he’s all good,” Van Dillen mentioned, per Fox 5 in Atlanta. “However the story now turns not on me, but it surely turns to how a lot flooding we’ve seen. I imply… superb quantities coming in.”

Helene made landfall in northern Florida Thursday evening as a Class 4 hurricane, and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. Greater than 4 million properties in its path have been with out energy as of Friday morning, The Related Press reported. A minimum of 10 individuals have died.