Family’s Rescue Dog Saves His 11-Year-Old Human After Mudslide
Eleven-year-old Jamie Parker pitched in money with his siblings to rescue Tucker days before he was going to be put down at the shelter. And now Tucker is rescuing them right back!
Jamie was at home with his grandparents, his sister Jemma, and his beloved rescue dog Tucker when their world was flipped upside. A mudslide triggered by Hurricane Helene floodwaters crashed into their house outside Asheville, sending Jamie off the couch and face-planting into a wall.
Grandma Donna ended up on the roof and she and grandpa Michael quickly found Jemma, but Jamie was nowhere in sight. That’s because he was buried under the stairs in a 12-foot pile of rubble and debris. It was pouring down rain and they were frantically looking for him.
Jamie said, “It felt like forever down there,” “I couldn’t see sunlight, I could feel water dripping on me and I thought I was either gonna drown or run out of air.” He didn’t even know if his family made it, until he heard his buddy Tucker barking and whining right above him.
Grandpa Michael said that Tucker refused to move from that spot and wouldn’t stop barking until firefighters arrived and used chainsaws to dig him out.