The man was left stranded on his truck along the Galana-Kulalu Causeway in south-eastern Kenya as the rushing waters continued to rise.
He was so hopeless that he began calling his loved ones from inside the cabin to say what he believed were his final goodbyes.
About 40 minutes after the alarm was sounded, the brothers arrived on the scene of the difficult rescue.James Rufus was trapped in his tanker truck after dangerous flood waters flipped his tanker and dragged it off the road.The man had given up hope and begun calling his loved ones to say his final goodbyes as his friends and colleagues watched from the shore.The video shows the pair flying down to get close to Rufus as he climbs onto the top of his turned-up truck.
Roan Carr-hartley and his brother Taru, who work for the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, were dispatched to the scene.“You can’t get your skids caught on anything and you have to be close enough, obviously, to step off onto the petrol tanker.”
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