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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Perhaps it was fate that a man's pickup truck got trapped in rising floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Francine not far from where Miles Crawford lives.
The 39-year-old off-duty emergency room nurse is professionally trained in saving lives -- quickly -- and that's exactly what he did the moment he saw what was happening Wednesday night in his New Orleans neighborhood.
Crawford grabbed a hammer from his house and ran to the underpass where the truck was stuck, wading through swirling waist-high water to reach the driver. When he got there, he saw that the water was already up to the man's head. There was no time to waste.