Hurricane Helene: FOX Weather meteorologist rescues woman from car during live shot as floodwaters rise

FOX Weather meteorologist Bob Van Dillen is being praised arsenic a leader aft rescuing a pistillate from her car arsenic Hurricane Helene floodwaters rapidly roseate during a unrecorded changeable extracurricular Atlanta connected Friday. 

Van Dillen joined "Fox & Friends" to explicate wherefore helium couldn’t beryllium astir and hold for archetypal responders to assistance erstwhile helium saw a pistillate successful information arsenic the deadly tempest wreaked havoc.

"I cognize that we're swamped present with each of the 911 calls, due to the fact that determination are truthful galore high-water rescues that we’ve already documented truthful far… [she] called 911 and, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and you could perceive screaming, right? You could perceive done my unrecorded shot, existent loud" Van Dillen told Steve Doocy.

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"That’s her car close there," Van Dillen added with a car that was astir wholly submerged successful the background. "So I conscionable said, ‘You cognize what? I recognize I’m with you guys connected the air, but I can’t fto it go.’"

ST PETE BEACH, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 26: Waves from the Gulf of Mexico clang connected enactment arsenic Hurricane Helene churns offshore connected September 26, 2024 successful St. Pete Beach, Florida. Later today, Helene is forecast to go a large hurricane, bringing the imaginable for deadly tempest surges, flooding rain, and destructive hurricane-force winds on parts of the Florida West Coast. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The FOX Weather meteorologist "dropped everything" to assistance the pistillate get retired of the concern safely. 

"I took my wallet retired of my pants, and I went successful there, waded in, got thorax deep," Van Dillen said arsenic helium was told by Janice Dean not to beryllium humble astir the heroic effort. 

"You cognize however it is. I was acrophobic that one, possibly determination was a bully swift current, but the existent truly wasn’t that bad. But, the h2o somesthesia I was acrophobic of, too. The h2o somesthesia is astir apt astir 80 [degrees]. So, each of those things were moving beauteous nicely, so, that being said, the h2o came up to astir my chest," Van Dillen added. 

"She was successful there, she was inactive strapped into her car and the h2o was really rising and getting up into the car itself, truthful she was about, astir cervix heavy submerged successful her ain car." 

Dean past asked what would person happened if Van Dillen didn’t measurement up.

"She would person drowned," Dean said. 

"You know, I don’t know," Van Dillen humbly said. "I told her ‘OK, undo your seatbelt,’ she undid her seatbelt. I said, ‘Let maine person your phone, fto maine person your bags,’ past enactment [her] connected my backmost and we walked in… she’s fine, she was successful shock," Van Dillen said. 

"She was cold, shivering, truthful I gave her 1 of my shirts and she was successful our car, conscionable warming up, astir 20 minutes aboriginal the occurrence section came, saw that we were OK and went connected to the adjacent rescue, wherever they’re going," helium continued. "Her hubby conscionable picked her up astir 5 minutes ago."

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"It was a bully deed for the day," Doocy said. 

Hurricane Helene: FOX Weather newsman Bob Van Dillen rescues pistillate from car arsenic floodwaters emergence successful Atlanta.  (Fox News)

Helene made landfall astir 10 miles west-southwest of Perry, Florida, astatine 11:10 p.m. ET Thursday, and impacts person been felt crossed the Southeast and into portions of the mid-Atlantic as the monster tempest pushed farther inland and began to weaken.

While upwind does stay a concern, the top menace from Helene continues to beryllium the flash flooding as torrential rainfall falls crossed the region, sending rivers and streams retired of their banks, onto roads and into communities, trapping residents.

The flash flood menace stretches from the Southeast into the mid-Atlantic, wherever aggregate Flash Flood Emergencies were issued aboriginal Friday morning, including the first-ever Flash Flood Emergency issued for Atlanta.

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FOX Weather contributed to this report.