New video showed what it was like for people who got swept away during the deadly Ruidoso floods and those who rescued them. On July 8, the 20-foot floods killed three people, including two children.
As water swept through a neighborhood near Sudderth, first responders rushed to save a trapped man covered in mud and surrounded by debris. Moments later, a woman ran up to the police officer, saying a woman had lost her four-year-old daughter. The officer found the mother, who said the girl was with her until she was swept away while inside the RV.
The officer reported the missing girl before returning to rescue the trapped man. Soon after pulling the man to safety, the officer gets a call on his radio of another trapped person, this time inside a travel trailer that was swept away by water.
As he learned there was another child missing, he asked for swift water rescue to come help. The officers remarked that it’s like nothing they’ve ever seen. Despite rescue efforts, the floods claimed two childrens’ lives: four-year-old Charlotte Emery and seven-year-old Sebastian Trotter. A man in the same trailer park, Benjamin Feagin, was also killed in the flooding.
