A television reporter interrupts the live broadcast to rescue a woman trapped during Hurricane Helene

A Fox meteorologist jumped into action during a live broadcast early Friday morning to save a woman trapped in her car during deadly Category 4 Hurricane Helene.

Bob Van Dillen was reporting from North Atlanta, Georgia, which was hit by flooding and powerful winds, when a woman could be heard on live footage frantically calling for help from a submerged white car.

“Oh man, this is a situation. We will contact you in a moment. I’ll go and see if I can help this lady a little more. I’ll be back,” Van Dillen told viewers.

Van Dillen, who reported from Peachtree Creek, described how the water level had risen to “about 23 feet” and was reportedly still rising.

He reassured the trapped woman: “Yes, I have. I’m telling you loud and clear.

Fox cameras then captured the moment Van Dillen – who is 6-foot-4 – slowly carried the trapped woman out of the car and through chest-deep water to safety.

Later he appeared Fox and friendstelling his co-hosts, “I called 911, it was five minutes, 10 minutes – and you could hear her screaming, right? You could hear it on my live recording, really loud.”

Van Dillan said he simply couldn’t wait any longer for emergency services to arrive and decided to take action himself.

“She panicked. She really wasn’t making much sense, and yet she was still strapped into her car seat,” Van Dillen said. Fox and friends.

“She still had her seat buckle on and her window was more or less down and that’s why she’s trying to talk to me. I’m trying to open the door, Ainsley, but the water pressure won’t let me. So I said, “Roll down the window.” So he rolls it up and… that allowed me to open the door. … The battery is still alive and working in this car. In fact, I think the engine is still running… the water itself is relatively warm. The water temperature is about 80 degrees.”

He said it was a “miracle” that the water did not short-circuit the boards and prevent her from lowering the window.

“That equalized the pressure and allowed me to break down the door, unbuckle her seatbelt and put her on top of me, next to me,” he explained. “It was good to go.”

More than 37 people died as Helene continued into the southeastern United States due to heavy rainfall and dangerous winds.