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Between the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and other major news stories recently, there hasn't been much talk about the flooding in Kentucky that has taken lives and caused billions of dollars worth of damage. Back in early May, two Nashville police officers fought their way to a flooded mobile home park to get the trapped residents out safely. But the rising water nearly trapped the cops as well.
According to local news channel WSMV, trapped families were screaming for help as the mobile home park started filling up like pool. Fighting the heavy wind and torrential rains, Nashville Metro police officers Corey Mullins and Caleb Foster were in charge of evacuating the flooded Goodwin Street Mobile Home Park.
Mullins and Foster were pictures of calm and composure as they worked quickly with the Office of Emergency Management, making multiple trips to the area to get everyone to safety. Standing on their squad cars in knee-deep water, they calmly directed OEM boats to the trapped residents. Once all were out safely, the cops waited patiently for the rescue boat to grab them up as well.
Then the OEM boat motor broke. "We were heading out for our third trip to rescue the two police officers, and some debris hit our lower unit, killed the engine and we couldn't start it again, and that's when the fun began," David Crane of OEM Rescue told WSMV reporter Dennis Ferrier.
With the motor broken and the boat about to be crushed from collision as the current whipped it around, the OEM personnel had no choice but to get in the water. When the officers saw their would-be rescuers jump out of the boat, they decided it was probably best to swim for it.
"The two police officers, which we could clearly see, decided they had to make a move. As soon as they picked their feet up, the water carried them off," Crane told reporters.
The officers were swept away down Antioch Pike dodging all sorts of debris and life-threatening objects that were crashing into each other and everything else with alarming speed and force Down river, Officer John Timm got into a second boat and started looking for the two police officers he knew were in the water.
"We were fighting power lines, and got Officer Mullins off the top of a trailer that was cracking at the seams," Timm told reporters. In the end, Mullins and everyone else was safe including residents, OEM workers and police.
Before the rescue, Officer Timm was recently in the news after being stabbed in the neck while on duty last March. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites        
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