EDMONTON, Alberta, July 31 A 20-year-old Canadian woman has been able to meet and thank the police officer who rescued her from a tornado exactly 20 years ago Tuesday.
Kristen Lemay and her parents were living in the Evergreen Mobile Home Park in Edmonton when the tornado hit July 31, 1987. The twister killed 27 people, 15 of them in the trailer park, where more than 100 homes were toppled.
Bill Clark was one of the first officers to get to the park.
Clark and Lemay had their reunion in a memorial garden at the park, where they hugged each other, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
"You were so small, only in a diaper," Clark said, describing how he rushed her to a hospital. He drove with the baby on his lap as he maneuvered through flooded streets and then dashed to the trauma unit with her in his arms, the CBC said.
But Clark told the CBC he only did "what everyone else would have done."
Lemay's family moved to Quebec after the tornado. She said she spent years looking at clippings in the family scrapbook and telling her younger sister that someday she planned to meet the man who rescued her, the CBC said.
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