Body camera video shows deputies helping after the tornado

MARTIN CANTY, Florida State. — After the twisters touched down four weeks ago, WPTV worked to secure body camera footage from local sheriff’s departments.

On Thursday, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office sent us over an hour of video showing exactly what deputies were working on that night.

The body camera shows the deputies running to help the victims.

One deputy runs to the front door of the house and immediately takes action, saying, “Okay, who do we have here?” “head injury! “okay”.

Crews ran in the pouring rain, jumping over trees and branches at Mariner Sands to ask people who had just passed through the EF-2 tornado, “Are you guys hurt?”

One woman appeared, she was comforted by the deputies, who took her by the hand and led her to a safe place.

When one deputy told her, “I got you, I got you,” the shocked woman replied, “I’ve never seen so many tornadoes in my life!”

Deputies saw more damage because the tornado had passed just half an hour before they arrived…and even when the crews’ radios were down due to the torrential rains that flooded them, they didn’t stop helping.

Another test arose on the roads before the crews.

They had to maneuver along roads obstructed by downed power lines, uprooted trees, abandoned cars and other debris.

Still, they stayed in Martin County through the night and into the next day helping those in need, “bless your hearts for going through all this,” one woman told the crews helping her.