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Reporter stops live stream to help rescue dog trapped in Hurricane Florence flooding

After seeing the woman struggle, the reporter went with her to her house and helped Tasha pick up her large dog, a Rottweiler, and carry her through the water.

BY NAMRATA TRIPATHI

PUBLISHED SEP 17, 2018

A reporter in New Bern, North California reportedly interrupted a live coverage of the flooding in the region caused by Hurricane Florence and rushed to rescue a dog in the middle of the broadcast. The reporter Julie Wilson, with the ABC local station WTVD, was in the middle of recording a Facebook Live video when she saw a local woman, identified as Tasha, struggling to rescue her dog from a flooded house.

Volunteers from all over North Carolina help rescue residents and their pets from their flooded homes during Hurricane Florence September 14, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and flooding from the heavy rain is forcing hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues in the area around New Bern, North Carolina, which sits at the confluence of the Nuese and Trent rivers.