The rescue record · chapter 12 of 12
Hurricane Sally
September 2020. Hurricane Sally crawled ashore near Gulf Shores, Alabama, flooding coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with feet of rain.
How Ryan was involved · from the record
Foley, Alabama: Ryan rescued more than 50 people in a single day — much of it on video. Babies, children, the elderly. He removed a near-death man from a collapsed building.
Source: the biography filed as Exhibit 288 in United States v. Nichols — read it in full →
Why it matters
The single biggest day in the rescue record, and one of its best-documented — the footage exists.
Pictures & footage
Photos and footage from this deployment are being added from the archive. Were you there — rescued, rescuing, or watching? Your pictures and video belong in this record.
Send what you have →