Wonderful rescue of a woman with a child trapped during a flood
Liam Stitch and his pregnant partner Tia Draper performed a truly heroic act when they rescued a woman and her baby from a flooded car in Birmingham during a storm. During the incredible storm, the severe weather claimed the life of a man on the A433 in Gloucestershire.
The unusual rescue situation was even captured by eyewitnesses' cameras. They recorded the car being trapped, and its passengers - a young girl and her mother - screaming for help, as reported by The Sun.
The hero did not lose his composure and managed to climb over a pedestrian bridge as the high water pushed the car down the road. The man succeeded in breaking the window before pulling the child out of the back seat to safety. He then handed the child to his pregnant partner, Tia.
"My partner is five months pregnant, so we went for a walk. We were walking across a bridge, and I heard a woman screaming from inside a car. She was yelling, 'Help me, help me, please save my baby, it's behind me!' The front of her car was pointing down into the water, so I was dangling from the bridge, but I was careful not to load the car in case it sank. I told the woman to stay calm, roll down the window, and give me her baby. I said to her, 'Give me the baby's hand, I will pull it out,' the man said.
During the rescue operation, the woman could only lower the window halfway, so he took the baby and literally threw it behind him into the lap of Tia, who was on the bridge. The man then ran back to his work van and grabbed a set of professional straps.
He managed to secure the car to the bridge with the straps so that it would not be driven further under the bridge. "Then I told the woman to get in the back and climb out the window. She managed to get out, and then we just jumped into the water together, holding hands and counting to three," the man recalls.
Eventually, an ambulance crew arrived at the scene and examined her and the child. "I think if I hadn't done what I did, the car would have been pulled under the bridge and there would have been no way to get them out," Liam Stitch does not rule out the possibility.
The man, who also has two children from a previous relationship, said he wants people to understand the deadly dangers of flooding. According to him, an unexpected threatening situation can arise in a matter of minutes during a powerful flood.