Mom Pleads With 911 During Oklahoma Floods: 'We Are All in the River' | The Weather Channel
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Listen to the 911 call a mother made when she and her family nearly got washed away in a swollen Oklahoma river.

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Sean Breslin

December 2, 2015




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Britta Franck knew she had just minutes to save the lives of her three children and mother, as well as her own grandmother, when rushing water rose up around her vehicle Friday in Oklahoma.

In the video above, you can hear her panicked 911 call, when Franck, 25, pleaded with a dispatcher to quickly send a rescue crew to Little Horse Creek in Afton, Oklahoma. According to NewsOK.com, Franck's Yukon XL flipped on its side, and as it filled up with water, she called 911 for help while removing her three sons – Miguel, 6, Arturo, 3, and Devin, 1 – as well as her mother, 72-year-old June Nolan.

“We are all in the river,” the emotional Franck told the dispatcher.

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During the call, Franck held onto one of her children while the other two waited in a tree, and Nolan sat in waist-deep water on the side of the car. They waited about 45 minutes for help to arrive, Franck told the Tulsa World.

As she spoke to the dispatcher, one of her children called out, "Mom, I love you, mommy."

The family ran into trouble on their way home to Kansas from the Grove, Oklahoma, home of Franck's sister, ABC News said. Franck told the Tulsa World that her GPS system redirected them onto a rural road due to a bridge outage, and it was on that road that their car was swept off a bridge.

“We went down the creek about the distance of a football field and then we hit a tree and that is when (the SUV) flipped onto its side,” she told the Tulsa World. “I turned around and looked and the baby was underwater in his car seat.”

Franck and her children were treated and released from Integris Baptist Regional Health Center on Friday, and Nolan, who sustained cuts from broken glass, was released on Saturday, NewsOK.com also reported.

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Ice-covered limbs hang near the ground as traffic passes by Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015, in Oklahoma City. (Jim Beckel/The Oklahoman via AP)