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Granny weed

Granny weed

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My son in law works for the local council where I live and was working alongside the river that runs right around our town, its in flood at the moment and they have not long recovered a body from it of a twenty year old man who drowned after a night out in the town. The river here has claimed many lives that I can remember, and the locals are urging the council to put railings up at a particular spot where many people have fallen in. Today my son in law heard screams whist he was working and saw a very distraught woman pointing to a pushchair in the middle of the river with a 6 month old baby in it, apparently a gust of wind had blown the pushchair in to the river, my son in law dived in and got the baby out of the pushchair and to safety, the baby was unresponsive but alive and is now being cared for in our local hospital. My son in law struggled to get out of the river himself as the water was so cold and zapped his strength, when my daughter and I went to pick him up from the scene he could barely speak and couldn't stop shaking from the cold. He said he kept thinking about his own children and didn't give jumping in a second thought, he could quite easily been killed himself today and we are extremely proud of him.:clap:
 
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Granny weed said:
My son in law works for the local council where I live and was working alongside the river that runs right around our town, its in flood at the moment and they have not long recovered a body from it of a twenty year old man who drowned after a night out in the town. The river here has claimed many lives that I can remember, and the locals are urging the council to put railings up at a particular spot where many people have fallen in. Today my son in law heard screams whist he was working and saw a very distraught woman pointing to a pushchair in the middle of the river with a 6 month old baby in it, apparently a gust of wind had blown the pushchair in to the river, my son in law dived in and got the baby out of the pushchair and to safety, the baby was unresponsive but alive and is now being cared for in our local hospital. My son in law struggled to get out of the river himself as the water was so cold and zapped his strength, when my daughter and I went to pick him up from the scene he could barely speak and couldn't stop shaking from the cold. He said he kept thinking about his own children and didn't give jumping in a second thought, he could quite easily been killed himself today and we are extremely proud of him.:clap:
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Objective proof you are a good woman :) You did it right.
 
lahadaextranjera

lahadaextranjera

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Wow! That's amazing. How lucky he was there at the time. He could have easily got cramp and drowned too.

It's a difficult rescue when you have to save another without being able to secure your own safety first and your son in law did that without a moments delay.

This has to make national press!!
 
Granny weed

Granny weed

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lahadaextranjera said:
Wow! That's amazing. How lucky he was there at the time. He could have easily got cramp and drowned too.

It's a difficult rescue when you have to save another without being able to secure your own safety first and your son in law did that without a moments delay.

This has to make national press!!
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It has he's in all the national papers, he had an interview with the sun this morning lol xx
 
Steve French

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Couple of my relatives died in the local river, still haven't found their bodies 20 years later, and it is a fairly tame one. Now all they have is a scholarship in their name. You take you're life in your hands when you get into these and other currents. When you put your own safety in danger for someone you don't even know, that is something.
 
Granny weed

Granny weed

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Steve French said:
Couple of my relatives died in the local river, still haven't found their bodies 20 years later, and it is a fairly tame one. Now all they have is a scholarship in their name. You take you're life in your hands when you get into these and other currents. When you put your own safety in danger for someone you don't even know, that is something.
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Thank you, and I'm sorry to hear about your relatives river's can be dangerous places ours is the river severn and its claimed so many lives and the part of the river where this happened is notorious for claiming lives as it goes in to a weir, there's some good salmon to be had in their though.
 
ChingOwn

ChingOwn

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The street that goes into where I work is named Private Walker Drive. Private Walker attempted to do the exact same thing as your sun in law here during a flash flood. Private Walker failed and now has a street named after him. Im glad your son in law did not become a street name. Im also glad that people like him are still around.
 
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