So I'm mostly just going to quote the notice I got with my paperwork this morning, since that's all the details I have currently. In short, we came a bit too close to comfort to losing one of our paper carriers.
Cast:
C1: The hero in our tale, a fellow carrier I'm not particularly familiar with.
C2: The victim, who is the sweetest old guy you'll ever meet. He helped give me a lift and finished my route after I got hit by a drunk driver on the route a while back and I am SOOOO glad he is doing well now because I'd be really really really upset if he wasn't!
A bit of background: the area this happened in had got hit by snow recently, and heavy rains have caused local rivers to be a bit floody as well.
Quoth our notice from this morning:
I don't think I've ever met C1 before (seen a lot of faces but don't have names for them all), but I'm so glad he was there to pull C2 out of there!
Cast:
C1: The hero in our tale, a fellow carrier I'm not particularly familiar with.
C2: The victim, who is the sweetest old guy you'll ever meet. He helped give me a lift and finished my route after I got hit by a drunk driver on the route a while back and I am SOOOO glad he is doing well now because I'd be really really really upset if he wasn't!
A bit of background: the area this happened in had got hit by snow recently, and heavy rains have caused local rivers to be a bit floody as well.
Quoth our notice from this morning:
At approximately 7:00 Saturday morning, the [newspaper] dispatcher received an urgent call from [C2] stating that their car was being dragged into the water. [C1] rushed to the scene to discover [C2]'s car was partially off the road, in the water, and [C2] was still in the vehicle. [C1] waded into waist-deep frigid water to [C1]'s car, only to discover that the water had risen so high that [C1] could not open the door. [C2] was unable to move his legs due to hypothermia and did not have the strength to get out of the car. The car was trapped up against a sign on the driver's side with water pouring into the passenger compartment. [C2] was able to roll down the passenger window, which allowed [C1] to pull [C2] out and pack him an immense distance to safety. [State Higway Patrolman] assisted [C1] with [C2] the last 50 feet and expertly attended to [C2] until the ambulance arrived and transported [C2] to the hospital. [C2] was doing well when we checked on his condition but do to hypothermia, he was expected to stay overnight for observation.
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