Carpenter rescues N.S. couple trapped in flooding car: ‘I’ll get you out’
KENTVILLE, N.S. — At first, Richard Kirk couldn’t hear the screams.
The wind was howling, and rain battered the Nova Scotia carpenter’s face, as he looked down at a vehicle that had gone off a slippery Annapolis Valley road last Friday night and into a watery ditch.
Then he heard Alex Pineo and Cassidy Jones, frightened and shouting for help. They were trapped, the frigid water entering their battered car as they struggled to open the jammed doors.
He said he didn’t even think about it — he just acted reflexively to help.