Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Johnson, a veteran of the Iraq War and a father of four, carried two young children out of flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey. A picture of the rescue quickly went viral.
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.@CBSThisMorning spoke with the deputy and Iraq war veteran who was photographed as he helped save a family from Harvey’s dangerous flooding pic.twitter.com/H4OpJTv20L
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 29, 2017
Johnson carried the children out of the house after a woman waved him down and asked for his help.
“I made a couple of jokes in reference to swimming and things of that nature,” he said, explaining the different ways he tried to take their minds off of the waist-deep waters.
But when he said the family tried to thank him, Johnson replied, “This is my job; it’s not something that I need to be thanked for.”
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HCSO deputies are out in the Blackhorse subdivision still working high water rescues. #Harvey pic.twitter.com/gBFwSaoPjo
— HCSOTexas (@HCSOTexas) August 27, 2017