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Alabama Power Lineman Rescue Florida Family from Coosa River

Alabama Power linemen rescue Florida family from Coosa River
By Joseph Allen
Alabama NewsCenter

October 27, 2022

An Alabama Power line crew were in the right place to aid a drowning family near Lay Dam. (Alabama NewsCenter)
A 4-year-old girl who fell into the Coosa River while feeding ducks, and her family, can thank four teammates from an Alabama Power line crew for saving her, her father and older brother from a potential catastrophe. The family had come up from Florida to escape Hurricane Ian when the girl fell off a pier near Alabama Power’s Lay Dam. The father and 8-year-old brother both jumped in to help her but were also quickly in distress in the swift current. The mother was on the riverbank but unable to help.

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