A female farmer jumped into raging floodwaters to save her lambs and sheep.
Hundreds of people were told to evacuate their homes but Faye from Derbyshire, UK, didn’t want to leave her animals behind, especially when she saw them struggling in the floodwaters.
Faye did not think twice and jumped to the rescue when a neighbor said some lambs and sheep were in danger as they had been caught up in the fierce torrents.
And so, the 26-year-old tied a rope around her waist, gave it to the neighbor, and leaped into the freezing floodwater.
“The water came at such a force,” she told Unilad. “It was really driving rain. The wind and the rain cut me in two. So the sheep took themselves behind the flood-bank and effectively watched the tide come in around them.”
Even though the raging water submerged the farm under 7ft, the brave farmer said: “You just do it, don’t you. You put your life on the line for your animals, you really do.”
She continued: “I said to somebody ‘duty calls’. (The animals) come first in any farmer’s life. Any farmer will agree they come above yourself and above anything. The thing is, they are what we live for.
“I’ve spent nights up with them, delivering them. We’ve just been through a busy lambing period. You spend your whole life with them, and some of them are pets. We know them by name. One of them is actually called Pebbles, but she was like a big hippopotamus as she swam beside me.”
She knew she was the one who had to rescue her animals and “didn’t fancy filling out the accident book for anybody else.”
“If I got a bit of danger they could pull me out,” Faye added. “There were two people on the end of the rope because the current was so strong. It was fierce. I was swimming and had lambs under my arms trying to keep them above water.”
The 26-year-old managed to take the animals to safety thanks to her ‘absolutely fantastic’ neighbors.
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