Children Feared Missing After Car Swept Off Bridge
Rescue Team From Alabama Helps In Search
February 17, 2003
PULASKI, Tenn. -- Officials searched Monday for two Alabama youngsters missing after the car driven by their aunt was swept off a bridge in south Tennessee near the Alabama line in the wake of heavy rains. She survived after a dramatic rescue.
The woman, Lisa Norwood, 31, was able to roll down a window and get out of the car, and then floated about 100 yards down the rain-swollen Elk River before being saved late Sunday night after three hours in the water, said Capt. Dennis Russell of the Giles County Rescue Squad.
Ground crews and a helicopter were searching for 12-year-old
Emmet Furguson and his sister, Eliza Furguson, 7, of Toney, Ala., just across the state line.
Emergency officials said Norwood was unable to help the youngsters because of the swift current.
The car was not recovered and was believed to be submerged with the two in it.
"It's sad but that's about all we can do right now," Russell told The Daily Herald of Columbia.
He said the current has been too swift for divers to recover the car.
"We're hoping for a miracle," Valerie Rhoden, a cousin of the youngsters, told WKRN-TV of Nashville.
Officials at the scene said a sign had been posted before the accident warning motorists about high water.
A boat sent into the river to retrieve Norwood at a railroad bridge pylon capsized, leaving her and at least four rescuers in the water. All were pulled out by rope from the nearby bridge. She was treated for hypothermia and the rescuers suffered minor cuts and abrasions.
A rescue squad from Elkmont, Ala., is helping with the search.
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Services
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Wednesday, February 26, 2003
1:00 P.M.
Officiating
Bro. Austin Posey
Bro. Robert Fudge
Concluding Service
Gatlin Cemetery Ardmore, Alabama
Arrangements By
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Ardmore, Alabama
Rescue Team From Alabama Helps In Search
February 17, 2003
PULASKI, Tenn. -- Officials searched Monday for two Alabama youngsters missing after the car driven by their aunt was swept off a bridge in south Tennessee near the Alabama line in the wake of heavy rains. She survived after a dramatic rescue.
The woman, Lisa Norwood, 31, was able to roll down a window and get out of the car, and then floated about 100 yards down the rain-swollen Elk River before being saved late Sunday night after three hours in the water, said Capt. Dennis Russell of the Giles County Rescue Squad.
Ground crews and a helicopter were searching for 12-year-old
Emmet Furguson and his sister, Eliza Furguson, 7, of Toney, Ala., just across the state line.
Emergency officials said Norwood was unable to help the youngsters because of the swift current.
The car was not recovered and was believed to be submerged with the two in it.
"It's sad but that's about all we can do right now," Russell told The Daily Herald of Columbia.
He said the current has been too swift for divers to recover the car.
"We're hoping for a miracle," Valerie Rhoden, a cousin of the youngsters, told WKRN-TV of Nashville.
Officials at the scene said a sign had been posted before the accident warning motorists about high water.
A boat sent into the river to retrieve Norwood at a railroad bridge pylon capsized, leaving her and at least four rescuers in the water. All were pulled out by rope from the nearby bridge. She was treated for hypothermia and the rescuers suffered minor cuts and abrasions.
A rescue squad from Elkmont, Ala., is helping with the search.
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Services
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Wednesday, February 26, 2003
1:00 P.M.
Officiating
Bro. Austin Posey
Bro. Robert Fudge
Concluding Service
Gatlin Cemetery Ardmore, Alabama
Arrangements By
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Ardmore, Alabama
Children Feared Missing After Car Swept Off Bridge
Rescue Team From Alabama Helps In Search
February 17, 2003
PULASKI, Tenn. -- Officials searched Monday for two Alabama youngsters missing after the car driven by their aunt was swept off a bridge in south Tennessee near the Alabama line in the wake of heavy rains. She survived after a dramatic rescue.
The woman, Lisa Norwood, 31, was able to roll down a window and get out of the car, and then floated about 100 yards down the rain-swollen Elk River before being saved late Sunday night after three hours in the water, said Capt. Dennis Russell of the Giles County Rescue Squad.
Ground crews and a helicopter were searching for 12-year-old
Emmet Furguson and his sister, Eliza Furguson, 7, of Toney, Ala., just across the state line.
Emergency officials said Norwood was unable to help the youngsters because of the swift current.
The car was not recovered and was believed to be submerged with the two in it.
"It's sad but that's about all we can do right now," Russell told The Daily Herald of Columbia.
He said the current has been too swift for divers to recover the car.
"We're hoping for a miracle," Valerie Rhoden, a cousin of the youngsters, told WKRN-TV of Nashville.
Officials at the scene said a sign had been posted before the accident warning motorists about high water.
A boat sent into the river to retrieve Norwood at a railroad bridge pylon capsized, leaving her and at least four rescuers in the water. All were pulled out by rope from the nearby bridge. She was treated for hypothermia and the rescuers suffered minor cuts and abrasions.
A rescue squad from Elkmont, Ala., is helping with the search.
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Services
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Wednesday, February 26, 2003
1:00 P.M.
Officiating
Bro. Austin Posey
Bro. Robert Fudge
Concluding Service
Gatlin Cemetery Ardmore, Alabama
Arrangements By
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Ardmore, Alabama
Rescue Team From Alabama Helps In Search
February 17, 2003
PULASKI, Tenn. -- Officials searched Monday for two Alabama youngsters missing after the car driven by their aunt was swept off a bridge in south Tennessee near the Alabama line in the wake of heavy rains. She survived after a dramatic rescue.
The woman, Lisa Norwood, 31, was able to roll down a window and get out of the car, and then floated about 100 yards down the rain-swollen Elk River before being saved late Sunday night after three hours in the water, said Capt. Dennis Russell of the Giles County Rescue Squad.
Ground crews and a helicopter were searching for 12-year-old
Emmet Furguson and his sister, Eliza Furguson, 7, of Toney, Ala., just across the state line.
Emergency officials said Norwood was unable to help the youngsters because of the swift current.
The car was not recovered and was believed to be submerged with the two in it.
"It's sad but that's about all we can do right now," Russell told The Daily Herald of Columbia.
He said the current has been too swift for divers to recover the car.
"We're hoping for a miracle," Valerie Rhoden, a cousin of the youngsters, told WKRN-TV of Nashville.
Officials at the scene said a sign had been posted before the accident warning motorists about high water.
A boat sent into the river to retrieve Norwood at a railroad bridge pylon capsized, leaving her and at least four rescuers in the water. All were pulled out by rope from the nearby bridge. She was treated for hypothermia and the rescuers suffered minor cuts and abrasions.
A rescue squad from Elkmont, Ala., is helping with the search.
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Services
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Wednesday, February 26, 2003
1:00 P.M.
Officiating
Bro. Austin Posey
Bro. Robert Fudge
Concluding Service
Gatlin Cemetery Ardmore, Alabama
Arrangements By
Ardmore Memorial Funeral Home Ardmore, Alabama
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