A heroic rescue just took place as a semi-truck hung dangerously off a bridge connecting Indiana and Kentucky. God bless these first responders
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00:00semi-truck somehow dangling off the edge of the Clark Memorial Bridge. We don't know exactly how
00:05this happened yet. Rescue crews trying to get to him now when they pull out you'll see
00:09off to the top right of your screen you'll see the fire truck and all the firefighters up there
00:14but this rescuer went down and just did a miraculous thing and I just we couldn't we
00:22couldn't believe what our eyes were seeing and we're so glad that we were able to break out of
00:25a commercial to come and let you watch this at this moment. I wasn't sure that we would catch it.
00:31I wasn't sure that it was happening. They were hanging over freezing cold water the Ohio River.
00:38You hit that it's like hitting cement at that height. Officials say a motor vehicle collision
00:43caused this scene. We're learning more now the bridge is shut down in both directions
00:49but if you want to see faith in action watch what this rescuer did. Lowered down to the cab's front
00:56pulled the driver out and now dangling far above even farther above the Ohio River
01:03freezing cold temperatures able to hang on to him the two of them and one harness
01:11look at him twirl maybe we'll see that he might have been able to get a harness around this man
01:15we can't quite see it but it would have only had split seconds to do that any more weight on that
01:22truck would have made it move now what we can't see is what they're doing to secure the truck
01:26on the other end but I don't know how you would it doesn't look like there's a way to do that
01:30that gravity is so powerful where that truck is but look where the two are dangling just at the
01:36lip of the bridge they're going to make it he's pulling his hand out we pray oh we pray for this
01:43scene so as we watch this we don't know the wind conditions we we don't know a whole lot other than
01:53the fact that it's very cold and certainly that water of the Ohio River is Emily what are you
01:58seeing you're pointing oh I'm just I'm trying to get a read on the exact name of the department who
02:03is engaging in this heroic rescue I'm overcome and overwhelmed by the bravery the heroism and
02:10the training we are watching this is training at its finest our first responders put their lives
02:16on the line every day and they are there in that instant they are the 911 call that people in
02:21distress and need who are watching their lives flash before their eyes as they are dangling over
02:25a bridge these are the heroes and we are watching a heroic rescue in action god bless these first
02:31responders all right so we got close there again to the lip of the bridge we are unaware about what
02:38keeps them back if that's wind if that's gravity if it's what what they're trying to do can they
02:44bring him in with some other sort of ropes as we watch this this started not long ago 12 0 4 p.m
02:52eastern it's 12 42 and 10 seconds eastern right now so they've been working at it for a while but
02:58not too long and and again they're struggling to get them back to the lip of the bridge and look
03:04at the man off to the left center and he's pulling up on those ropes so so this harness
03:09situation they're trying to pull him in as if they were mountain climbing but had fallen off the
03:13mountain i'm gonna guess it probably feels that way kaylee what do you see you know i i'm just
03:20putting my mind in the mind of this truck driver i i can't tell from this angle whether it's a man
03:26or a woman but i just imagine someone who was doing their job on a friday perhaps thinking
03:32about going home to their family and then your truck goes off the side of a bridge and you think
03:37it's the end but the ingenuity of america's best our first responders show up wow louisville metro
03:44police now say that they uh have not been able to confirm anything more about the collision that
03:50started this but this did involve other vehicles uh and and so what happened after that collision
03:56again we don't have all the the context of that there was somebody inside the truck cabin part of
04:02the trailer hovering over the ohio the freezing of ohio river rescuer goes down from what we believe
04:09and emily uh was pointing out we're trying to figure out well who's responding exactly
04:14but this is a situation that you see they're back near the lip of the bridge
04:20and unable as of yet to get pulled in but they are trying mightily to to make that happen the
04:26clark memorial bridge or second street bridge as it is called oh my goodness they're so close he's
04:32got his feet almost on the railing they can almost reach him and as i said the lord is working a
04:38miracle right now before our eyes and i don't know how he continues to hang on how they hang
04:45on to each other this is louisville kentucky the water below freezing i mentioned if you hit it at
04:52this height it's going to feel like cement and he got his foot wow they've got the left foot of one
04:58of the men wow you see the ropes that are tethered to the rescuers
05:06harness they've they've got him they're they're trying to pull him down i wish we had sound to
05:12this but there i i can only imagine there's got to be some cheers cheers to go with all the tears
05:20oh there you go they got him