A massive tree destroyed a home in northwest Atlanta when a storm rolled through the area Tuesday night.
The home belongs to Atlanta 911 dispatcher Le'Fayedra Toney. She wasn't home when a tree fell on it, but her daughter, Diamonique Foster, ended up getting trapped inside. Diamonique then called 911 looking for her mother.
Foster showed exactly where a giant 100-year-old oak came through her roof and trapped her on her bed, seconds after she heard an earsplitting lightning strike.
Luckily for her, she still had her phone in her hand called 911. She asked to speak to her mother.
“I was freaking out, and I told her my mom worked there, and I know they don't usually patch you through like that, but I was freaking out and I needed my mom,” Foster said.
Toney said her 911 training kicked in and she stayed calm for her daughter, but she was frazzled on the inside.
“When I’m on my calls, personally, I try to treat everybody like family, because you never know. And this time, it was family. This time it was, so it worked out,” Toney told Elliot.
Foster said once she heard her mother's voice, she knew everything was going to be OK. Rescuers arrived minutes later and pulled her out with barely a scratch.
Foster told Elliot she thinks her mom is Super Woman, and she has the T-shirt to prove it.
“Even as just a 911 call taker, she was, she needed to be calm at all times, but for it to be her own child, that was amazing. I don't think… I couldn’t have done it,” Foster said.
The house is a loss.
Friends have set up a GoFundMe page to help the family pay expenses.
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