Fox Weatherman Interrupts Live Broadcast To Save Screaming Woman Trapped In Flooded Car

Weatherman Bob Van Dillen likely knew it was going to be an eventful night covering Hurricane Helene for Fox as the Category 4 storm made landfall, but he couldn’t have imagined just how eventful it would get.

Van Dillen was doing a live national standup early this morning on Fox & Friends with a flooded roadway as a backdrop.

“You can see right here we’ve got this lady that drove into the area that’s flooded out and she’s screaming right now,” he told the studio hosts. After describing the scene for a few more seconds with the sound of the woman’s voice in the background, Van Dillen told the audience, “I just called 911. The fire department is coming.”

He then turned to try and comfort the woman assuring her help is on the way before cutting his live shot short, telling the studio, “It’s a situation. We’ll get back to you in a bit. I’m going to see if I can help this lady out.”

Cut to video of Van Dillen carrying the woman on his back through chest deep floodwaters before literally giving her the shirt off his back so she could get warm.