{"id":110106,"date":"2024-10-04T00:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110106"},"modified":"2024-10-04T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:50:13","slug":"florida-couple-trapped-in-home-during-helene-rescued-by-sarasota-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110106","title":{"rendered":"Florida couple trapped in home during Helene rescued by Sarasota police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/sarasota-police-department-saves-couple-trapped-with-limited-oxygen-during-hurricane-helene.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">The police department in Sarasota, Florida, saved a couple on Friday who were trapped in their home with a dwindling oxygen supply after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><strong>SIESTA KEY, Fla. <\/strong>\u2013 A husband and wife were saved from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/florida\/siesta-key\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Siesta Key<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a>, home without power last week during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/helene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Helene<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The rescue was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SarasotaPD\/status\/1841540009142485202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1841540009142485202%7Ctwgr%5Ee3ef7ddb777efa03f92e462e6ad797ba28a92779%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewswire.storyful.com%2Fstory%2F313585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">caught on camera<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/florida\/sarasota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarasota<\/a> Police Department, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarasotapd.org\/your-spd\/support-services-division\/special-response-teams#:~:text=The%20Emergency%20Response%20Team%20responds,as%20directed%20by%20the%20Special\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emergency Response Team (ERT)<\/a> performed the rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarasotapd.org\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/3875\/5080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sarasota Police Department<\/a>, the rescue happened before 4 a.m. Friday morning after the couple&#8217;s granddaughter called 911 with concern for the pair due to her grandfather being on an oxygen supply and her 85-year-old grandmother having mobility issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Severe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flooding<\/a> and impassable roads required the ERT to conduct the rescue in a high-water vehicle, police said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The granddaughter told police her grandparents&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">home<\/a> was damaged due to Helene, and the couple were stuck on the second floor of the home. The 86-year-old man was quickly running out of oxygen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/extreme-weather\/north-carolina-pets-saved-people-standing-chest-deep-helene-flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NEIGHBORS STAND IN CHEST-DEEP FLOODWATER IN NORTH CAROLINA HOME TO SAVE PETS FROM DROWNING DURING HELENE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">A group of neighbors in Hendersonville, North Carolina, stood in chest-deep floodwater from Helene to save cats and dogs from drowning. (Courtesy: David Rhode via Storyful)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">In the police video, the ERT officers tell the man and woman they can&#8217;t stay in their home. &#8220;There\u2019s no power here. You can&#8217;t stay here,&#8221; they said. The officers indicated that the man needed to go to a hospital to replenish his supply of oxygen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The ERT rescued the woman first. To do so, they carried her down the steps of the house in a dining chair. &#8220;Just stay still. We&#8217;ve got you, okay? Just relax and don&#8217;t panic,&#8221; one officer tells the woman as they prepare her to go down the stairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I35dOijX7ck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full rescue video, on the Sarasota Police Department&#8217;s YouTube<\/a> page, the ERT safely takes the woman down two flights of stairs and sets her chair on the ground outside. As the camera pans around to the ERT&#8217;s high-water vehicle, the couple&#8217;s flooded neighborhood can be seen in the background.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Sarasota police said the man and woman were both successfully rescued and taken to a nearby hospital for care, and were reunited with their family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">FOX Weather Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen recalls saving a woman who was trapped in Atlanta floodwaters during Helene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/extreme-weather\/siesta-key-florida-couple-trapped-home-helene-rescued-police\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police department in Sarasota, Florida, saved a couple on Friday who were trapped in their home with a dwindling oxygen supply after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida.\u00a0 SIESTA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110106\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}