Stunning footage captured the moment a Fox News weatherman interrupted his live broadcast to rescue a woman trapped in her car by deadly Hurricane Helene.
Weather reporter Bob Van Dillen sprang into action as he was filing a live report in northern Atlanta, Georgia, where Helene tore through on Friday morning after making landfall in Florida hours earlier.
Van Dillen began by pointing out the stranded woman ‘drove right into the flood waters’, and she could be heard screaming for help as he told the studio he had dialed 911 and was waiting for the fire department.
As the screams continued through his broadcast, Van Dillen cut his live shot short to wade in and help the woman, with Fox anchors in the studio branding him a ‘hero’ as he carried her to safety in chest-deep waters.
It came after Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm overnight,…