{"id":277760,"date":"2026-05-04T03:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:15:11","slug":"police-use-jumper-cables-to-save-mother-from-raging-floodwaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277760\/","title":{"rendered":"Police use jumper cables to save mother from raging floodwaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (CNN) &#8211; Police in Texas were forced to get creative, using jumper cables as a lifeline to save a mother from raging floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers with the White Settlement Police Department responded last Saturday night to reports of a woman and three kids in a car that was trapped in rushing floodwaters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Responding officers found the car trapped in a canal that runs toward a creek. Rescuers got the three kids to safety, but their mother was stuck in the front of the car, which was teetering toward the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI need something to get wrapped around her,\u201d an officer said in body camera footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">So, a quick-thinking officer grabbed a pair of jumper cables to use as an improvised lifeline. The mother was told to anchor herself with the cables in case she was swept away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fire officials soon arrived and pulled the car back onto the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">None of the four family members were harmed in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since then, all city patrol vehicles have been ordered to be equipped with a water rescue throw bag.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (CNN) &#8211; Police in Texas were forced to get creative, using jumper cables as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30370,116,118,117,102641,102643,102644,102642,27],"class_list":["post-277760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-jumper-cables","tag-mother-saved-from-floodwaters","tag-mother-trapped-by-floodwaters","tag-police-use-jumper-cables-to-save-mother","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}