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Sailor Story: (Second) Nature
April 28th was supposed to be just another day at the Navy Recruiting Station in Suffolk, Va., for its assigned recruiters, Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Joe Cantu, Culinary Specialist 1st Class Malcolm Gardner and Gunner’s Mate 1st Class Paul Denton. No one could have guessed that later in the day a tornado would destroy the station, the Freedom Plaza Mall and nearby Sentara Obici Hospital.
Though it rained off and on all morning, the Sailors were unaware there was a tornado warning.
“We heard there was a storm, but within minutes the tornado hit,” Denton says. “I saw the funnel cloud come across the highway, and then it went straight through our building and then turned and went up, and then it came right back down on a different path and hit the neighborhood.”
During the storm, Cantu and Gardner sought shelter under desks as the tornado came through at 4:30 that afternoon. Both walked away without injury. Once the storm passed, the Sailors took immediate action to help the victims around them. They assisted emergency officials in evacuating victims from the wreckage in the Plaza and the hospital. Denton and Cantu carried patients in wheelchairs from the third floor of the nearby hospital cancer center to safer locations. They moved walls searching for victims, and then assisted more victims at the cancer center.
“It was a chaotic scene; it was like being back on a ship during a mass casualty drill,” Denton says. “It was all adrenaline, and we all just responded and helped out at as much as we could. I wasn’t thinking. It was second nature to me and Cantu and Gardner. We did what we had to do.”
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Permalink Reply by Joyce Tucson Mom on
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Wow, being heroes MUST be part of a sailor's nature . . . I am continually impressed:)!
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