CHEROKEE AREA FAMILY RESCUED FROM STORM

A CHEROKEE COUNTY FAMILY IS HEADED TO OHIO FOR CHRISTMAS THANKS TO HELP FROM THE IOWA NATIONAL GUARD. MICHAEL WILSON WAS DRIVING NEAR URBANA IN EASTERN IOWA WHEN HIS VAN HIT A PATCH OF ICE ON I-380 AND LEFT THE HIGHWAY:



WILSON SAYS WHEN THEY LEFT HOME, IT WASN'T SNOWING HARD AT THE TIME, AND THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD MAKE IT OUT OF IOWA AHEAD OF THE STORM.

AFTER THEY WENT INTO THE DITCH, WILSON CALLED FOR HELP AND SOON AN IOWA NATIONAL GUARD HUMVEE SHOWED UP WITH FOUR SOLDIERS INCLUDING SGT. FIRST CLASS JOHN DEVORE:



MICHAEL, HIS WIFE SARA, THEIR THREE CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY DOG WERE GIVEN BLANKETS AND TAKEN TO A NEARBY HOTEL.



THE VAN WAS RESCUED FROM THE DITCH AND THE FAMILY HEADED ON THE WAY TO OHIO FRIDAY MORNING.

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