Mississippi first responders rescue Arkansas motorist from flash flood

COVINGTON COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) – An Arkansas girl is thanking Covington County first responders for rescuing her from a automobile trapped in flash flood waters final week.

Alice Frisby, 79, was driving from Florida to her residence in Huttig, AR, on July 22 when her truck hydroplaned and ran off Hwy 84 right into a ditch.

Covington County Sheriff’s Division Sergeant Josh Summerlin waded by waist-deep water to get Frisby out of her truck and carry her to security.

As he bought Frisby close to the freeway, members of the Collins Fireplace Division assisted Summerlin in making it up the muddy embankment. A number of native residents additionally stopped to assist.

“It was superior; I used to be simply so grateful,” Frisby mentioned. “I’m glad I didn’t harm no person. I didn’t harm myself, so I’m grateful for all that. God took care of me.”

First responders mentioned they have been simply doing what they have been skilled to do.

“(It was) simply one other day,” Summerlin mentioned. “It’s nothing that each police officer, deputy, trooper all throughout the nation doesn’t to every single day.”

Nevertheless, Collins Fireplace Chief John Pope mentioned the profitable rescue was due to a number of folks stepping as much as assist.

“The civilians that got here in to assist, they stepped up as a result of they wished to and noticed a necessity,” Pope mentioned. “All people working collectively, we made a distinction and made a optimistic end result of what may’ve been a very harmful and dangerous state of affairs.”

Frisby was handled and launched from a close-by hospital.

She stayed in Collins in a single day, and her household picked her up the following day to take her the remainder of the best way residence to Arkansas.

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