Nine years old and already a hero. Branson Baker, a boy from Oklahoma, saved his parents’ lives. On April 27, while this state in the central United States was facing severe bad weather, Wayne and Lyndy Baker, and their little Branson, were on the road in a truck and were trying to flee the tornado to seek shelter. Alas, their vehicle found itself thrown and embedded in trees.
Trapped in their truck with multiple fractures, the parents were seriously injured and unable to extricate themselves. Nine-year-old Branson escaped unhurt and took the opportunity to make his way out of the damaged vehicle. According to CBS News, he ran more than a mile in the dark, through power lines and other debris on the ground, to get to a neighbor and friend’s house for help.
“The only way he could find his way back was with the lightning that lit the road. He ran as fast as he could, as hard as he could, he covered a mile in ten minutes. That’s pretty impressive for a little kid,” his uncle Johnny Baker said. “The last thing Branson said to them was: Mom, Dad, please don’t die, I’ll be back. »
Fractures to the back, sternum, neck, jaw…
Branson eventually found enough people to save his parents, who were then taken to an intensive care unit for hospitalization. The father suffered a broken back, neck, sternum, ribs, arm and had a partially severed finger, while the mother suffered a punctured lung and fractures to her back, neck, jaw , ribs and right hand, but their vital prognosis is not engaged.
Touched by this story and heroic act, the Branson baseball team decided to hold a fundraiser during a game. A GoFundMe fundraiser has also been set up to help the young man’s parents overcome this ordeal. This Wednesday morning, 75,000 dollars were raised, or nearly 70,000 euros.
In total, this tornado, which was one of dozens that left traces of destruction in Oklahoma during the last weekend of April, caused the deaths of at least five people and left many families without homes.
