Florida first responders form human chain to ‘save Christmas’ after crash

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By Patrick Reilly

Florida police and firefighters went above and past to save lots of a household’s Christmas after a mother driving together with her three younger youngsters crashed right into a watery ditch, with responders forming a human chain to retrieve their presents from the wreckage.

The automobile misplaced management, hit a pole and rolled over earlier than touchdown in a water-filled ditch on the southbound facet of Interstate 95 in Ormond Seaside round 11:45 a.m., in line with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Good Samaritans stopped and helped get the lady and her three youngsters — the oldest of which was simply 5 years previous — from the automobile when deputies and firefighters from Ormond Seaside arrived.

Luckily, the 4 solely suffered minor accidents — nonetheless, their Christmas items had been nonetheless within the automobile, which sat in 3 ft of water.

As the lady and kids had been taken to an space hospital, firefighters used a ladder to succeed in the automobile and had been capable of salvage a lot of the items.

They fashioned a human chain with deputies and moved the presents to dry land.

“Due to these efforts, deputies had been capable of transport the items to the VSO workplace, the place they had been sorted, dried, supplemented with just a few additional donated items, after which dropped at the hospital for the youngsters,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a press launch.

The sheriff’s workplace thanked all those that assisted in making the victims’ Christmas “a bit of bit brighter regardless of the crash.”