A 26 -year -old New Jersey is running He praised as a hero for his role in saving at least 165 people From the destroyed floods on Friday in Texas, most of whom are girls from mystic camp.
Tuesday The number of missing persons exceeded 160 After the authorities have created a hot line for families to report the missing persons. The official death number was 100, although it is likely to rise.
Perhaps this outcome was higher if the efforts of the American Coast Guard officer Scott Roskan, a rescue swimmer He descended from the town of Oxford In Warren Province, northwest of Jersey He graduated from Rider University. Early on Friday, an urgent appeal from a local research team in Kiir Province launched a work band 1, a graduate of the swimming school on its first mission.
The Coast Guard has published its team from Air Station Corpus Christi at about 6:30 or 7 am in that day, as narrated. The heavy floods were besieged hundreds of people in CARE Count The remains of the tropical storm Bari Dozens of rains were thrown or more rains in the center of Texas Hill – From 6 to 20 inches throughout the weekendAccording to CBS News.
The successive water in the Guadalpe River, which rose 26 feet in 45 minutes on Friday morning, was sent a wall of water through the camps and youth camps along the river that was full of visitors at the weekend.
It was among the most difficult blow Special camp, Christian, girls of all Sufi girlsThat is in the end He lost 27 of the camp and the advisor. This is where Roskan found himself after a horrific journey of seven hours or eight hours and 210 miles across the storm itself-a trip that would usually take an hour.
“I I have never seen anything this tragic in my lifeHe said to the CNN network from the top.
It took four methods of landing, and after they did that, Roskan stayed there as only one respondent while the rest of his team was published elsewhere.
“I had 200 children, all of whom are afraid, terrified, coldIt may be the worst day in their lives, and I just need to sort them, make them high -level care, and get them out of the flood, “said Roskan,” GMA “, with them all” looking for someone for a kind of comfort or safety. “
Air aviation was the only option, so the army helicopters organized two areas to land in the shooting field and a football field. Starting with young children, Rosgan led the captains that were triggered, and sometimes adults to rescue helicopters, Carry some children so that they do not slip On the cut rocks or cutting their feet. Many children were barefoot because they rushed to escape water.
“I was a kind of main man as much as seizing people, usually like 15 to 10 children at one time, and perhaps an adult with them,” said Roskan “GMA”.
Despite the section Internal security praised his actionsRosskan reduced his heroism, attributed his work to his training, and giving a lot of credit for his concern.
“I think the real heroes are children on the ground,” said Roskan. “These men are heroic. They were dealing with some of the worst times of their lives, and they were strong, and this helped inspire me to get there and help them.”
With news wire services