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CHARLOTTE, NC - Dramatic video shows the infinitesimal firefighters rescued a antheral from a submerged car during this weekend's nor'easter successful Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Charlotte Fire Department shared video footage from a firefighter's helmet that shows the infinitesimal the rescue occurred.
During a tempest that brought 11 inches of snow to the city, crews were called successful to rescue a stranded operator successful a pickup motortruck that had gone disconnected the roadworthy and into a retention pond.
The car started taking connected water, truthful the operator climbed into the furniture of the motortruck and waited arsenic firefighters worked successful the acheronian and successful acold water.
The video shows crews wading done what appears to beryllium respective inches of snowfall earlier inflating a rescue vessel to bring the antheral backmost to shore.
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The furniture of the motortruck was covered successful snow. He told firefighters that he'd been stranded for astir 45 minutes, and his feet were numb. Firefighters were yet capable to bring the antheral to safety.
"This is what real-time decision-making looks like. This is teamwork nether pressure," the occurrence section said connected social media.
CHARLOTTE, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 25: A presumption of the country pursuing an crystal tempest that near astir a cardinal radical without powerfulness successful Charlotte, North Carolina, United States connected January 25, 2026.
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This weekend's nor'easter ties the grounds for the fourth-snowiest time connected record, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
Other areas successful North Carolina, specified arsenic the Outer Banks, saw beardown wind gusts and near-blizzard conditions which resulted successful respective home collapses.
FOX Weather's Bob Van Dillen was unrecorded successful Charlotte each play agelong covering the large storm.
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