Trooper Finds Miracle on Coast
Published: October 14, 2005
Mississippi state troopers were among the first to go in to devistated areas along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina hit. It was their duty, even though most of them suffered major damage to their own homes and property.
Sgt. Roy Fullerton said, “I’m just a plain ole highway patrolman working the road, you know, day in and day out.”
But there are some folks in Hancock County who consider him to be one of the heros. We stood on what is considered to be ground zero between Waveland and Pearlington in Hancock County. The entire Clermont Harbor neighborhood was completely destroyed making it hard to imagine anyone trying to ride out the storm, but someone did and that’s where Sgt. Roy Fullerton came in. He said, “We came in by foot; the only way accessible was to come in by foot.”
Fullerton and his team, some Jackson-based, 48-hours after Katrina’s wrath checked what was left of houses hoping for signs of life but expecting to recover more lifeless bodies. That’s when he says he witnessed a miracle in a roof blown off of a house and resting in the middle of the road.
“We could hear voices from inside there; inside the roof and upon our getting there we found an elderly white female that…she was black and blue from head to toe,” Fullerton said. “She was terribly dehydrated and she obviously had either a dislocated hip and or a broken pelvis.”
Sgt. Fullerton and his men found a piece of debris; plain old scaffle board and put her on it and started carrying her out by hand. A Coast Guard helicopter flying missions in the area spotted them and airlifted the victim to safety.
Her identity remains a mystery to Fullerton. He said, “All I know is later on I checked with the Coast Guard; everybody that they had rescued out of here, they had no deceased individuals from the people we took out of here alive.”
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