MILWAUKEE – A reporter is being hailed a hero during his station’s storm coverage in Florida.

While covering Hurricane Ian, Tony Atkins – a reporter for WESH 2 News in the Orlando, Florida, area – rescued a woman from her car stuck in high floodwaters. 

The woman, a nurse, was on her way to work early Thursday and attempted to drive through the flooding caused by the hurricane, according to a WESH 2 report. 

Atkins held the woman’s purse for her as she finished crawling out of her car’s window and onto his back, the video shows. The waters were at least to Atkins’ waist. 

With the purse still in hand, Atkins waded the two of them through the flooding. And when he got to a place where the water was only submerging his feet, he let her down.