but a nashville-based helicopter pilot named joel boyers and his fiancee got word of what was happening and flew right into the chaos. they plucked 17 people to safety in a delicate and dangerous private rescue operation. genie rice cranford was seeing the disaster unfold and shot video of the heroism on display. jeannie joins me now live. thank you for making time for us tonight, jeannie. first, i want to ask you if you and everyone in your family are okay. yeah, yeah. we re good. we actually live on a hill, so wye did we didn t take on any floodwater. we re good. you see this play out, you take video. the video you shot shows us just how astonishing the disaster was and just how equally astonishing joel boyer s heroism was. tell us what was going on before he arrived. yeah, he s a hero for sure. you know, we heard the rain was
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Nashville-based helicopter pilot Joel Boyers had just finished helping his fiancee earn her pilot's license on Saturday morning, and they were heading home to celebrate, when he received a frantic call from a woman in Pennsylvania. Her brother's home in Waverly, Tennessee, was underwater and he was trapped on a roof with his daughters. Could Boyers help?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville-based helicopter pilot Joel Boyers had just finished helping his fiancee earn her pilot s license on Saturday morning, and they were heading home to celebrate, when