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Dad Saves Toddler Sucked Into Storm Drain

Posted Sep 9, 08 3:38 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Emergency workers are praising the "incredibly quick thinking" of a British man who saved his 3-year-old daughter from drowning yesterday after she was sucked into a storm drain with her dog, the Guardian reports. Royal Air Force sergeant Mark Baxter raced to a river just in time to save his daughter Leona as she shot from the pipe into a flood-swollen river 230 feet away.

"She was floating face down in the river," he said. "I leapt over the side and grabbed her." Leona, badly scraped by the journey through the pipe, is expected to make a full recovery. Her dog didn't survive. Flooding killed 8 people in the UK over the weekend and forecasters warn that more heavy rains are on the way.

Source Guardian (UK)

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If there'd been a grate on the other end of the pipe or the girl had been a bit bigger she would have been stuck underground. Both she and her dad are lucky to be alive. - Firefighter Steve Hagar

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