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SAVE HER BUT QUICKLY NEEDED HELP HERSELF. >> WHO WAS IN THE CAR, HER AND HER? MICHELLE: IMAGINE A CAR HITTING A FIRE HYDRANT SO HARD THAT IT CREATES A HOLE BIG ENOUGH TO GOBBLE UP A BUICK. >> YOU WEREN’T IN THE CAR AT ALL? >> THANK GOD I WASN’T IN THE CAR -- IF I HAD BEEN A PASSENGER IN HER CAR, IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE KILLED HER. MICHELLE: THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING IN MARION COUNTY. GOT PICTURES FROM FIRE DEPARTMENT TO PROVE IT. >> MA’AM, DO YOU MIND IF WE CHECKED YOU OUT? GET VITAL SIGNS ON YOU? MICHELLE: DEPUTIES SAY WHEN 21-YEAR-OLD ALEXANDREA RUNYON SMASHED INTO A FIRE HYDRANT ON 441 IN SUMMERFIELD. WATER STARTED GUSHING SO FAST THAT IT SUCKED RUNYON AND HER CAR RIGHT DOWN INTO THE WATERY ABYSS. A WOMAN AND HER SON TRIED TO HELP. >> WHEN I PULLED UP, I THOUGHT SOMEONE DITCHED IT. MICHELLE: BUT IN THE PROCESS THE HOLE OPENED UP EVEN MORE AND TOOK THE MAN’S MOM DOWN WITH IT. NOW HE’S TRYING TO SAVE HIS MOTHER AND RUNYON AND SAYS RUNYON WASN’T HELPING AT ALL. >> AND I PULLED HER AWAY FROM THE DOOR, AND SHE GRABS ON IT AGAIN AND I SAY, YOU GOT TO LET GO OF THAT -- DOOR RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IF MY MOM DIES, YOU’RE GOING TO BE IN BIG -- TROUBLE. MICHELLE: WHEN DEPUTIES AND FIRE FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVE THEY FOUND , BOTH WOMEN CLUTCHING ONTO THE CAR LIKE THEY WERE DANGLING OFF A CLIFF. >> I WAS HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE YOU KNOW JUST HANGING ON TO IT. MICHELLE: I HAVE SEEN CARS HIT A FIRE AT HYDRANT BUT FIREFIGHTERS HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BE SHEARED OFF. AS YOU CAN SEE THEY ARE PUTTING IN A NEW ONE. ALEXANDRIA RUNYON WAS ARRESTED FOR DUI. AND THE FIRST RESPONDERS, WELL, THEY FILED THIS UNDER JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU’VE SEEN IT A

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