-Oh my God. (sirens)
That was so scary. (sirens)
(phone ringing) (sirens)
(911 operator) 911 location of your Emergency?
-From what I can see there's like an entire tree. Like fell on the wire outside.
-So we just got woken up. And um...
A massive branch just fell.
Knocked all of our power out.
(long sigh)
-That was like so so scary. I thought that...
As it happened I'm thinking a tree just hit us. And...
Like all you're thinking is did it just like crush us? Are we alive? Like that's all I was thinking.
Like I reached over thinking it missed me but it crushed you and Dexter. -Right.
-I remember it being like...
like drizzling. Raining.
It was dark.
-You just couldn't see anything.
-All this stuff that just fell over here.
-I know. Like... Our AC is kind of jacked up here.
Playstation fell off.
Modem's off. I don't know. I see some wood chippings here. So... we're going to see what happened. But...
(long sigh)
That almost fell out of there.
-This like almost flew out? -Yeah.
-That's probably broken. -It's probably not gonna be really good at all.
(abnormal sound from RV)
I don't know what that noise is. There's something that keeps like...
-I feel like it's the convertor.
(noise from RV)
Well hopefully um... That electrical wire isn't like...
I don't know. I don't know what's happening. I'm just like so freaked out. That was...
That was terrifying. -That was horrible. It was just like...
Ugh. That was like a worst nightmare. You just wake up and...
Ugh. At least we're okay. I guess you gotta count the small things.
-In this instance we were staying on a friend's property. And not an RV park.
-Our friends that actually owned the property were 15-20 minutes away.
-Dexter... disappeared.
He's freaked out. He ran behind the couch. He went to his like...
Dexter ran to his like safe spot. He's... -He's okay though.
Babe. I know this is gonna sound crazy.
But we probably shouldn't go outside.
I'm being totally serious when I say that we shouldn't go outside cause the electrical source is right out there.
And if there's a grounded live wire we could get electrocuted.
-Like if we step down?
-I think it speaks for itself like... You could hear it in our voices.
We were stumbling over our words and... Just trying to collect our thoughts.
We had no idea what to do.
Working like on the ambulance and stuff. Both my parents worked EMS and I worked on the EMS. And...
A lot of times people would get in accidents out on the road. And they would knock down telephone wires.
And they would all alive and okay. Cause they'd be inside the car.
And it's happened before where they stepped outside the car and they got killed...
Killed instantaneously. Cause there was a live wire on the ground. So...
-Okay thats... I don't want to... Yeah. Go outside. -So...
-I have a feeling... If it knocked this down. Cause the... his electrical wire is right there.
-Yeah. -That it did something to the electrical wire. -I'm thinking so too.
Can you see anything? Just be careful.
(Renee gasps) -Oh my god.
-Can you see? -There is a tree...
Laying over the wire.
Like... This is... This is not good.
From what I can see there's like an entire tree. Like fell on the wire outside.
-It's kinda dark out right now. You can definitely see that? -Yeah. I mean...
Oh god. It's right here next to me.
Yeah. Don't go outside is all I gotta say. You're so smart.
You just saved our lives honey. By telling us not to go outside.
Like that wire might be like... I don't know.
My legs are shaking. And... like they just feel not right.
And I don't know if it's like electricity that I'm feeling. -It's not electricity.
-Oh my gosh. -Just adrenaline.
-Oh my gosh.
That was so scary. -Yeah. It was scary.
-I'm so glad we're okay. -Me too.
We're okay.
We reached out to our friend and we knew we had such a small chance of getting a hold of.
But we did know that there was a downed electrical wire right outside the camper. -Yeah. So what could he do?
-So we knew right away we needed to call 911. (phone ringing)
(911 operator) -911 location of your Emergency?
-Uh we just had a tree fall on our camper and knocked out electrical supply.
-Is anybody hurt? -No. No injuries.
-Do you know how big it is?
-Uh I can't make out. No, it's too dark outside.
-Are you in a... like a house, a trailer, a camper?
-We're in a fifth wheel camper.
-And have you tried to leave the residence?
Are you able to or you just don't want to?
-Uhh... -You're not trapped inside are you?
-No, we're not trapped inside. I think we're able to it's just concern of the live wire.
-If anything changes...
You know if you start to smell anything or see flames or smoke or anything like that.
Call us back and let us know. Okay? -Sounds good.
-There was the issue with the gate to get into the property.
We had a gate opener. But we didn't know if we were gonna be able to open the gate for the 911 crew.
We just had no idea if they were gonna be able to get to us.
(911 operator) -Are they able to get around it? Like could... Like could a police car, a fire engine get around it?
-Umm no.
-All right. I've got this in here. If anything changes or they're not able to get to you...
I'll call you back. Okay? So just stay by your phone. -Sounds good. Thank you.
-Oh I got the gate.
Yes.
All right good.
It's hard being on the other side of 911.
Usually we're the ones coming when you call 911.
Not the other way around. -I know.
We're usually the ones gettin woken up to come to these calls. -Yeah. -And it's just weird.
I'm just so glad. Like I almost went outside.
-I just uhh... It happened so quick and it just... Isn't that how it always goes? It just happens so quick.
It was so loud.
-So so loud. (long sigh)
-All right. Now we wait.
Starting to slowly, slowly, slowly get brighter out.
Oh look. You can see some tree limbs on top.
-Well it took that... I don't know what's going on up there. -Oh man.
Upon further investigation...
With the time that we had we realized...
that we weren't gonna get off so easy.
Holy mackerel.
Oh my gosh. Yep. That's a biggin.
-There was another concern that a tree fell but it wasn't done falling.
And it was gonna fall again. You just...
You feel so helpless when you can't see.
You don't know what's going on.
-Since we're still waiting for fire to get here.
I guess now would be a good time to go over from people that worked on ambulances and ERs the...
We can talk a little bit about what you might do in this situation.
When you call 911 just be prepared to give away your address.
Umm just state your emergency. Basic things like are people alive? Are you breathing?
Is there any immediate danger like fires?
Are you gonna be blocked in to your camper where you can't get out? Stuff like that. So...
You have to take a deep breath. You have to get rid of the nerves for a second.
And then you need to just slow down. Keep a calm voice. Because...
If you don't and you're panicking...
it's gonna take just that much longer for the 911 dispatcher to get the information out of ya.
And then it's gonna take that much longer for the help to get here. So...
Take a breath.
Speak in a clear, concise, slow manner.
And then it just makes their jobs easier that they can get here and help you.
And you can go from there.
(music) (sirens in distance)
(music)
-Imagine the loudest crack of thunder right next to your bed.
-Within a split moment.
The most violent impact we've ever felt in our lives.
You understand that you're still alive.
But immediately you turn to your loved one and just hope that nothing happened.
You can't see anything. It was so dark.
All you can do is hear and feel.
(music)
-All I know is just hearing...
you say we're okay, we're okay. I just felt so... So at ease.
(music)
-The morale of the story is life happens. -Hey. It happens. -You go with the flow. It is what it is.
Just count our blessings that it wasn't any worse than what it was. So...
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