August 11, 2025 • 39 mins
⏳ Part 2 of Flood of Miracles — The storm grows fiercer. The clock is ticking. Flash floodwaters are rising fast… and Rich Greenberg’s worst fear becomes reality: his son Zach has disappeared into the turbulent waters. But then, as Rich runs down the trail, he see something that makes his heart leap with both joy and fear! He sees Zach, stranded across a raging river on a tiny ledge, just 100 feet from a deadly waterfall. For over five hours, Zach clings to a slippery ledge—soaked, freezing, and barely holding on—while strangers risk their lives to save him.
In the middle of the chaos, Rich’s special needs daughter, Marla—soaking wet and tube-fed—speaks a simple but powerful word: “Pray.” 🙏
What happened next left rescuers stunned and witnesses forever changed.
🎧 Watch the miraculous true story of divine timing, unshakable faith, and a rescue no one will ever forget.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rich Greenberg MD has also written a book about their experience called Surviving A Miracle: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Rescue along the Nā Pali Coast of Kauaʻi
If you're a fan of true crime but crave a dose of inspiration instead of tales of darkness, The Miracle Files is your perfect alternative. With the same storytelling intensity as true crime podcasts, The Miracle Files delves into the details of each miraculous story, exploring the people and circumstances that turned these moments into something unforgettable. Whether you believe in divine intervention or human perseverance, this podcast will leave you feeling uplifted and amazed.
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In the middle of the chaos, Rich’s special needs daughter, Marla—soaking wet and tube-fed—speaks a simple but powerful word: “Pray.” 🙏
What happened next left rescuers stunned and witnesses forever changed.
🎧 Watch the miraculous true story of divine timing, unshakable faith, and a rescue no one will ever forget.
#FloodOfMiracles #TrueMiracle #DivineIntervention #FaithOverFear #MiracleStory #RescueStory #TheMiracleFiles #ChristianPodcast #RealMiracles #GodsTiming #AnsweredPrayer #FloodSurvivor
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rich Greenberg MD has also written a book about their experience called Surviving A Miracle: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Rescue along the Nā Pali Coast of Kauaʻi
If you're a fan of true crime but crave a dose of inspiration instead of tales of darkness, The Miracle Files is your perfect alternative. With the same storytelling intensity as true crime podcasts, The Miracle Files delves into the details of each miraculous story, exploring the people and circumstances that turned these moments into something unforgettable. Whether you believe in divine intervention or human perseverance, this podcast will leave you feeling uplifted and amazed.
Website: www.themiraclefiles.com
Podcast/RSS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-miracle-files/id1714203488
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_miracle_files_podcast
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.phpid=100093613416005&mibextid=LQQJ4d
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Zach looked so precarious, perched there on the ledge, doing
his best to hold still. Every few minutes, Zach would
get restless and move just slightly, and just slightly was
all it could take to end up back in the river.
Rich wasn't sure how much longer Zach could hang on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
As a twelve year old boy, he had never held
still a moment in his life, and I forced in
his mind you have to sit still. You cannot afford
to go in.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
The water level was rising, getting closer and closer to
Zach's tiny ledge. Rich's heart pounded as he realized if
Zach fell back in, there would be no more chances.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There's a big drop, a waterfall that's only about one
hundred foot downstream, and if he gets back in that river,
he's not going to survive it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This is the Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones and I'm
Holly Worthington. We're two sisters who love a captain true story,
but we're also seeking more light in our lives. So
we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable, uplifting
stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us on
this journey. Welcome, back to the Miracle files.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We've already made you wait long enough to see how
this story ends, so we're just gonna jump right into it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But first, here's a recap of part one.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We saw part of the waterfall, but you could almost
not see it because the wind just started howling.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They hurried across the stream, but unbeknownst to the green Bergs,
the water level was rising rapidly as unseen rain poured
down from the distant mountains above.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And out of the corner of my eye and my
peripheral vision, I see zac slip, and in essence, it
felt like someone really strong and powerful stoved me from behind.
And now Marla, who's in the backpack with me, and
me and my son's are now fighting for our lives
in heavy rapids. Further downstream, I saw a man standing
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on the river bank and I screamed as loud as
I could help. Oh, I had no idea what was
happening with Marla. Mike got in the river and he
extends this nine foot extendable tripod.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Rich managed to grasp hold of the tripod. Mike pulled
with all of his might, dragging Rich across the river
to the shore.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I rip off the backpack.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Miraculously, Marla was still in the backpack.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And I just hander in the backpack to these total
strangers because I'm now panicked about my son.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Racing down the trail. Rich pleaded with God to help
his son.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I called aloud to God, Please, God, don't let him dot.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Please to hut, don't let him to hut.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
All right, here is Flood of Miracles Part two. A
hidden current, a sudden pull, one misstep, and Zach was gone.
Rich Greenberg watched helplessly as a powerful flash flood dragged
his twelve year old son, Zack downstream. The churning water
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pulled Zach under, leaving only his head visible in the rapids.
In the now turbulent river, Zach fought the current to
no avail. He saw a couple of adults shouting to
him from the shore, but it was impossible to reach them.
He clawed at slippery rocks and stray branches, but the
rushing water tore him away every time. His strength was
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fading fast up the river. On the hiking trail, Rich
ran barefoot after his son. His heart pounded like thunder
in his chest, his desperation mounting. He knew all too well,
how treacherous this river was. He cried out to God
as he ran, pleading with his whole heart for a miracle.
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Down the trail, Rich found Mike's mom, Karen and her
partner Nino. They had seen Zach in the river and
had chased after him.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
As Zach was floating downstream, they were running alongside the
best they could, telling him keep your legs up so
they wouldn't make contact with the boulders in the river.
And so as I came across them, I was screaming frantically,
have you seen my son? Have you seen my boy?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There was something unsettling about the expressions on Karen's and
Nino's faces, a look of horror mixed with wonder.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And they said, he's over there, and they point across
the river. And now the river's swollen. It's good thirty
to forty feet across. And on the opposite side of
the river there's a several hundred foot rock wall that's
nearly vertical. It's unclimbable, and it's just covered with shrubs
and vines and greenery. And in set to this wall
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is a tiny little ledge and they're sitting on that ledge,
but only by the power of God is my son
his glasses intact.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Rich blinked in shock at the sight of his son.
How could it be in the midst of a raging river,
Zach had somehow grabbed hold of a moss covered ledge
several feet above him and pulled his body up onto it.
It made no logical sense, and yet somehow Zack sat
there squatting on the ledge, his backpack still on, only
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missing one shoe, and his glasses even still propped on
his nose. An overwhelming wave of relief washed over Rich.
The tightness in his chest relaxed for a moment, his
breathing returned. But then another question hit Rich with more
power than the torrential current. What now?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And I'm in total emotional wreck. I want to drop
to my knees and cry and thank God. But I
knew I didn't want to scare Zach, and so I
told him I loved him. I told him I was
so proud of him. I told him I had to
stay still, that he couldn't fall back in the river.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Unfortunately, Rich wasn't sure how much Zach could hear over
the roar of the rapids. Soon, a few other hikers
joined Rich, staring at Zach in dismay. Mike and Stacy
brought Marla and joined the onlookers. Suddenly, a thought struck Rich,
what must his wife be? Thinking she had to be terrified,
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He darted back up the trail to where the boulders
stood out of the water that had stopped him and Marla.
There he saw his wife, Carrie standing on the other
side of the river, her face pale with worry. She
was now trapped with Samantha and their friend Steve, along
with some other hikers and couldn't cross the river. Rich
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shouted to them.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And so I told him Zach is alive. And she said,
you're sure. I said, Zach's alive, and that's all I said.
I didn't tell her anything else. I was totally out
of my mind, and you could just see the emotion
that she had, not knowing in the relief that she had.
So I ran back downstream and totally out of my mind.
I could focus on one thing and one thing only,
and that was the safety of my son. Here was
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my young daughter with special needs. She was three, but
she was probably the size of a fourteen fifteen month old,
shivering in a diaper, sopping wet, and I'm a pediatric
emergency medicine physician, and nothing registered. And all these people said,
we got to get her out of the clothes. They
stripped her down, they donated all their gear, they gave
me some of their shoes, They wrapped her in fleece blankets,
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and then they said, we're going to send our two
fastest runners, Jessica and Johanna, who were sisters, down to
get help for your son. And so they took off running.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Rich looked across the river. We're relieved to see Zach
hanging on, but fear still coursed through Rich like a
freight train. The water level was rising, getting closer and
closer to Zach's tiny ledge. Rich's heart pounded as he
realized if Zach fell back in, there would be no
more chances. The rabbits were terrifying enough, but lurking down
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the river was something more deadly.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
There's a big drop, a waterfall that's only about one
hundred foot downstream, and if he gets back in that river,
he's not going to survive it. We had gone over
a couple of falls, a small and a medium drop
on our way, but this was a big fall. That
he couldn't survive.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And then things went from bad to worse.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The storm that had moved from above the waterfall now
had come full force, and so it was pouring harder
than I knew it could rain, and they were huge
gusts of winds, and the noise was deafening because you
had the river and the wind and the rain. And
Mike and Stacey offered to take Marla with them, and
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they said, you know, we're going to go get her help.
You can trust us. And I said, I trust you. You
saved my life, but I just have this feeling that
i'd need to keep my daughter with me. And they
said yeah. But he said, you know, I have a
little bit of medical experience. I think she needs to
be checked out. And I said, thank you so much,
but I'm a pediatric numacy medicine musician. I can see
she's okay. I just know she needs to be with me,
and so I kept her there. They went downstream, and
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about an hour later, Jessica and Johanna came back.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Rich looked at the two young women, hoping they'd found help. Unfortunately,
they had bad news.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
They said, we went to the next river crossing and
we can't cross it. It's too dangerous, so we can't
get help for your son.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Rich's heart sank once again. He was faced with the
brutal truth there was nothing he could do to help
his son, and time was running out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And I know at some point it's going to get dark,
and a bad situation is going to get worse. And
you know, I was sitting on this rock with Marla
bundled in these fleets, pouring rain, trying to keep her
under there, just praying and praying and praying and talking
to Zach as much as I could. I was singing
to Marla near continuously her favorite song, Heavenly Father, are
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you really there? Do you hear an answer every child's prayer, praying,
trying not to let Zach see me cry. If I
needed to cry. I picked my head under the fleece
with Marla started sobbing really quick, only to have Marla
touch my face and say, okay, Daddy, okay, Daddy, give
me a little pep talk, and then I'd pull my
head out and talk to Zach.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The hikers took turns, doing all they could to keep
Marla dry. One of the hikers tried to get Rich
to cover himself as well with one of the fleece blankets.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He tried to get me to cover myself and I wouldn't.
I was like, all the blankets and fleece and stoff
her for Marla, and He's like, no, you got to
take care of yourself. You got a drink. And at
that point I had no desire. I just wanted to
get Zach off that rock and keep Marla warm and dry.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
As Rich sat there, another thought dawned on him. He
hadn't told his wife, Carrie that their son was still
in danger, and as much as he dreaded telling her,
she needed to know. Once again. Rich left Marla with
the hikers and ran back upstream. He shouted across the
river and.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I said to Carrie, I neglected to tell you, in
my craziness of the situation, that Zach's alive and okay,
but he's across this river on this tiny little edge,
and we're going to figure a way getting them out
of there. And then you could see now the panic
in her eyes set back in and she said to me,
the backpack that you were carrying Marla in and your
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camelback are about to get swept in the river over there.
My initial thought was, who cares, it's a backpack. I
could care less about those things.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
In the chaos of the moment, Rich felt like the
backpacks were the least of his concerns, and they lay
dangerously close to the rising river. But as Rich stood there,
he felt prompted to follow his wife's advice.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But it was her wisdom. I just had this thought,
you need to go get that backpack right now. So
I walked carefully because it was right near the river's
edge and I didn't want to get swept back in,
and it was on slippery rocks, and I carefully retrieved
those backpacks. Thank goodness for the intuition and the spirit
my wife has to instruct me to do so, because
later I realized as I was with Marla, she didn't
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eat or drink anything, so she was totally tube fed.
In these backpacks that I retrieved were the syringes that
I needed to keep her hydrated as we waited for
a rescue. So I go back and I'm sitting on
this rock. Time is just passing by.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Zach looked so precarious, still perched there on the ledge,
doing his best to hold still. Every few minutes Zach
would get restless and moved just slightly, And just slightly
was all it could take to end up back in
the river. Rich wasn't sure how much longer Zach could
hang on.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
As a twelve year old boy, he had never held
still a moment in his life, except maybe for a
few seconds of sleeping each night. He was wiggly, moving,
couldn't hold still, needed something to do all the time.
And I forced in his mind, you have to sit
still on this rock. You cannot afford to go in.
So Nino and I instructed him to pull his feet
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up as far as he can and stood as far
back on that ledge as he could. He was just
sitting there across this forty foot raging river, had to
scream and use hand signals to get even any message
across to him.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Over three hours had now passed with no sign of
any kind of rescue in sight. With shivering hands, Zack
carefully pulled off his own backpack and found a sandwich
inside of it. He then pulled out a shirt from
his backpack. Shaking violently, Zach tried to cover himself with
the shirt. As time passed, the cramped ledge grew more
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and more unbearable for Zack's body and mind. Rich ached
for his boy, wishing desperately that he could help him.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm thinking to myself, if it gets dark, the river's rising,
it's pouring rain. Over the hours we're there, people watch
boulders being swallowed up as this river is rising. I
think he's going to fall asleep. We had hyped for hours.
He's exhausted by hours waiting there. He's going to fall asleep.
He's going to get swept in the river, and he's
going to one hundred percent sure die. So I thought
to myself, there's zero chance I'm going to allow that
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to happen. And so I'd said to myself, if it
gets near dark, I'm going to hand Marlow to one
of these strangers, teach them how to make her tube,
and I'm going in that river again and try and
get to that ledge because there's no way I'm and
allowed my son to die.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
As Rich contemplated his options, a hiker named John approached Rich.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He said, I've got to go downstream and get help
for your son, because if it gets dark, this is
going to get bad situation. And I said, please be careful.
I don't want you to get hurt, and he said,
I will, and so he goes downstream. It just happens
that this man John's hiking this very day, in this
very time, and he happens to be an expert outdoors
men who had done these seven day raises, and he
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had all of this skill.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
John, athletic and strong, hoped he could make it across
the river somehow. He knew he couldn't just stand there
and watch as the river level rose and the sky
grew darker and let this boy get swept away.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Forever there were these total strangers, don't need a clear gear,
willing to risk their safety in life. And so here's
this man. He gets in chesty raging flood, and he
watches the currents and he crosses part way. There was
a little kind of small land mass of tiny island
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in this river crossing, and he got all the way
there was able to wave to all of his fellow
hikers and family that hey, I made it this far.
And then he went a little bit further to the
next section of river, and it was too dangerous. He
just knew it was too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
John was further downstream attempting this crossing, and therefore Rich
could not see what happened. However, Rich was informed that
John was unable to cross the river. That was a
punch to the gut. But then Rich learned of something
else unfolding. A group of hikers on the other side
of the river noticed John and got close enough that
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John could call to them.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
He immediately springs into action and starts yelling at them, Hey,
you've got to get help. There's this boy in desperate
need of help. And so these people run down to
the next river crossing and they can't cross, and then
they play this game of telephone and they yell across
to the other people and they say, we'll go get help.
And then those people had to run two miles back
to the start of the hip where there's a beach
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and there's a lifeguard they found and they radio down
to the air rescue team who's about forty miles south
in a city called Lahui. So they get the radio
call and had been passed from person to person, So
at this point they just knew the rivers flooded, which
it does happen sometimes and people are in danger.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Rich hoped and prayed the message would reach someone who
could help them, but he was also realistic. He knew
the chances of a helicopter coming out in a raging
storm like this were beyond minute.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And as an er doc at Primary Children's at the time,
I knew it was the pilot's decision to fly or
not to fly based on weather, and I knew from
that experience a pilot doesn't put his crew in danger.
Because there had been some crashes and some deaths, they
don't put their crew in danger under trential downpour and
crazy conditions. I thought, there's no way they're getting a
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helicopter in this valley.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Which figured if anyone was coming for them, they would
have to hike in and it would take time, and
time was something they didn't have. Zach had now been
on the ledge for nearly five hours, and the sun
began dipping in the sky. Their situation was getting more
and more dire by the minute. Zack tried to stay alert,
but he was exhausted and freezing. The water level near
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the bottom of the ledge now Marla shivered in Rich's arms,
yet he could offer her no warmth. Karen left to
go find a different blanket. Nino stood with Rich, trying
to offer moral support, but Rich felt helpless and despair
began to take hold of his heart. A tragic ending
for his family seemed as inevitable as the darkening sky.
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Just then, Rich heard a tiny voice call to him.
It came from his poor, sopping, wet, trembling, suffering, tender
yet mighty Marla.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Marla says to me, pray. And when Marla says pray,
usually that means she wants me to sing her song.
Heavenly Father, are you really there? Do you hear and
answer every child's prairer? I say, do you want to sing?
And I start singing and she says, pray. He's interrupting me,
and she keeps saying pray, And I said, do you
want to say a prayer? And it was clear she
was asking me to say a prayer, and so I
helped her. And she said, this sweet, beautiful prayer. Do
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you have me?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Father?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And we asked for Zach's protection and ended in the
name of Jesus Christ's Amen.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Rich looked up from the prayer through the driving rain.
Some of the other hikers ran toward them and laid
a waterproof blanket over Marla, And then Rich heard the
most incredible sound. It couldn't be yet. It was the
faint chop of a helicopter echoed in the distance. It's
thrumb growing stronger with each passing second. His heart leapt
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at the thought. Was help really on the way? The
helicopter soared into view. It's pilot waving to let their
group know he was aware of them, flew past and
then looped around.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Here comes this helicopter flying downstream towards us, and there's
a man in a harness tethered by a rope, one
hundred feet below the helicopter.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The helicopter hovered over their group. There wasn't a minute
to spare. Rich wave to get the helicopter's attention. Yes,
save my son. He thought, he's running out of time.
But then Rich's stomach dropped like a bowling ball. He
watched as the man hanging below the helicopter swooped down,
landed on the ground, and grabbed one of the hikers
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standing on the shore.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And as is their protocol, the man's name is Aaron,
the rescue worker. He grabs the first person that he
can get a hold of. Because it was later in
the day and they knew they could only rescue so
many people with the gas they had and the time
of day, because once it gets dark they can't do this.
So he grabs this man Eric, who is one of
the hikers who was there helping us, and he starts
putting him in the harness and Nino, Eric and I
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are screaming at this man, like, why is he helping
this person when my son is in so much danger?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
In panic, the crowd flapped their arms and screamed and yelled. Aaron,
the rescue worker, looked around at them, confused at the response.
From Aaron's vantage point, he couldn't see Zach at all.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And so we're yelling at him and he's like, what
are you talking about? And we're pointing to him because
it's so loud you can't communicate, and we point across
and he finally sees Zach strand us on this ledge.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If you can imagine, this scene was something Erin had
never experienced before. No training could have prepared him for
a young boy perched precariously on a small ledge above
a roaring river next to a sheer cliff. We interviewed
Erin so he could describe his own thoughts and feelings
at this shocking moment. Here's erin.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
So I lowered him through the trees.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I'm on a hundred foot line going through a large canopy,
so the pilot and captain can't really see that well.
As I went in through the trees, I landed there
and grabbed the first guy came up to He said, okay,
I'm going to get you out of here, and he says,
leave me, go save the boy. And I was like,
I don't know what you're talking about. Any points across
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the river. And that was the first time I saw
Zach hanging onto the rocks in the river there. I
had no idea that he was even up in this area.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Aaron had to devise a plan quickly.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I knew I didn't have any time to waste and
I couldn't grab Zach and put a kid up on
another ledge without any supervision, and so I just told
that guy, I'm going to take you first. You're going
to become my basically what we call casualty collection point.
You're going to be my guy, and I'm bringing everyone
to you. And we flew up to our upper landing zone.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Aaron radioed the helicopter his shock couldn't be contained.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
After I dropped him.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
We flew back to Zach's location, and I remember telling
the captain and the pilot, we get this kid in
the water, we get kind of a radical situation coming up.
And the captain said, Okay, you're going to have to
take a deep breath and slow down. I didn't understand
anything he said, so I must have been pretty excited
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because I was talking really fat.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Erin explained to the pilot what he wanted him to do,
but of course Aaron had no idea if any of
it would work. This was a risk, but it was
one he was willing to take.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
So I explained the situation again.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I told him just lower me straight into the water
across from these guys, and then you're just gonna have
to swing me into the cliff because Zach was hanging
on and there was an overhang above them, so we
couldn't come directly down to him. And they put me
about maybe waist deep in the water, thigh deep, the
waist deep in the raging water, and then I just
had him start moving me.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
In Rich and the other hikers watched what was happening.
Everyone held their breath as they saw Erin try to
swing towards Zach Erin did the best he could to
communicate with the pilot above him, and.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Aaron's using hand signals like go this way, go this way,
go this way, and all of a sudden he gives
him the kill signal by you know, going his hand
across his neck, like, hey, this is as close as
we're gonna get. So the pilot now is holding the
helicopter totally dead still with torrential downpour and huge gusts
of winds. While Aaron was motioning Zach, you could see
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Zach's hesitancy, like I had drilled for five hours. You
can't fall in, You can't fall in. Do not move,
stay on that ledge, stay back, pull back, pull back.
And then when the helicopter came in, it was blowing
him and I was like, you gotta hold on, you
gotta hold on. I was just watching and watching him,
like how is Aaron? How is this guy going to
get to him? And he's trying, like he's holding onto
this branch and he's trying to pull himself, but the
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conditions are such he can't get closer.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Both Aaron and Zach found themselves in a conundrum. The
question of the day still filled the air with tension.
What now?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
And I got about maybe six feet away from Zach,
and I'm thinking, Okay, I'm not really sure how I'm
going to do this.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
You know, eventually the rope's gonna hit. I'm not going
to be able to get to him. Zach's looking at.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Me and he says, I don't know what to do.
I was like, well, in that same boat, I'm not
sure how we're going to do it this either.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Aaron motioned with his fingers to see if Zack could
screw any closer to him, but instead, Zach did something
that shocked everyone. Without warning, he leaped into the air
rich and all the hikers gasped in horror. Aarin was
caught completely off guard, but there was only one thing
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left to do. He reached for Zach.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I caught him, and I just wrapped my legs around him.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
In a moment of relief, Aaron realized he had hold
of the boy. But both Aaron and Zach sank deep.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Into the water, and then current pulled us out into
more into the opening. And I was unable to now
use the radio because I couldn't key the mic, so
I couldn't reach up with my hand because I'm holding
on to Zach and we're getting bucked around pretty good
in the water.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Here.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Aaron clung to Zach with all his strength, but the
current still threatened to pull Zach from his grasp.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
And as the current brings us into the opening, now
the helicopter could finally see us. And when we're unable
to use our hands and the rescue, we put a
big cross on top of our helmet, and then we
use head signals in order to indicate.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
What we need the pilot to do.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I was able to signal them with my head
to tell him take us up. So he lifted us
up out of the stream, which was great at first,
but I was thinking, Okay, we'll go to the bank
and I'll package this kit up because I'm holding on
to Zach. He's holding on to me. Next thing you know,
I'm two hundred five hundred feet up in the air.
I'm like, uh oh, that's a little more exciting than
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I wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The hikers watched as Aaron and Zach were lifted into
the sky. Rich hugged Nino, crying in disbelief.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
The pilot airlesson hundreds of feet in the air and
I'm watching this in pure amazement, like I can't believe
this is actually happening, let alone happening to me.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It's a scene that Hollywood couldn't recreate if they wanted to,
and just we're so grateful that call that see fit
to perform his miracle.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Aaron held tight to Zach as Zach gripped Aaron in return.
They flew through the air with no harness on Zach
at all, but it was a moment of triumph. Nonetheless,
Soon the pilot set Zach and Aerin down carefully on
the landing zone. At last, both Aaron and Zach heaved
a giant sigh of relief. But Aaron didn't have time
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to sit and celebrate. He had more lives to save.
When it was Rich's turn to go, a new fear
washed over him.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Aaron came back grabbed Nino. I told him about Marla
because he didn't really know about Marla, and he said,
go get your daughter. I'm going to rescue Nino and
then your next.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Rich watched as Nino was secured and lifted into the air.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And so I saw how I was going to get rescued,
and unfortunately I have a let's say healthy respect or
I e a terrible fear of heights. So I knew
it was about to happen, and I didn't want it,
but I knew I had no other choice, and so
I said to myself, Okay, don't say anything. Don't say anything.
Don't say anything. And so he lands and he starts
putting both Marla and I in the same harness because
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he's like, it's only designed for one and he's got
us wrapped in this harness and I just stare at him,
and I say, I just couldn't help it. This guttural
thing came out of me. I said, I'm deathly afraid
of heights. And he was so annoyed at me. Here
he was risking his life to save me and my family,
and here I'm being a whimp. And he just stared
right in my eyes and he said, too bad for you.
We got to get you the hell out of here,
and he said go. And then so we're airlifted and
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he's just holding off because he didn't have to, but
he just especially with Marla there, he just held on
to us and my eyes almost the whole time because
I was dead scared. And then he landed us on
this ledge.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
The incident, Rich was free from his harness. He ran
straight to Zach and wrapped his son tightly in his arms.
He held him there, sobbing, in an embrace that said
everything words never could.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
And I ran over and embraced him, and one of
the most beautiful, beautiful moments of my life, being able
to hold my boy again.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Then Aaron went and rescued everyone else from my side
of the river, and then went upstream and one by
one rescued Carrie and Samantha and Steve and Margaret NaNs
and the other couple that were there.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It was supposed to be a simple day, a family
hike to a scenic waterfall. Instead, it was an experience
that no one would ever forget. Zach Greenberg had held
onto a rock to life, Rich had held onto faith,
Little Marla had held on to prayer, a group of
hikers held on to hope, and Aaron had held on
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to a scrawny twelve year old boy in a harrowing
flight through the air. It was a story of strength
of family and a moment where everything could have ended
very differently, but for the heroic individuals and God. This
experience is now a memory for the greenbrig family, but
Rich Carrie and their children will forever hold on together
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to the flood of miracles they received.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
This family really did experience so many miracles, and one
of the greatest of those is how in the world
did Zack get up on that ledge.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know, Karen and Nino said they watched him and
he used his non dominant hand, yeah, to reach up.
Somehow he grabs onto this almost vertical rock wall and
pulls himself up on these slippery, moss covered rocks while
he's getting pulled away in the current. Like it really
does seem almost impossible, but.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, yeah, So we actually interviewed Zach and we have
a SoundBite from him that we'd love to share.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
I don't know how I got into this sledge is
definitely a miracle. But somehow I was going feet first
down the river, my belly was facing upwards in the water,
and somehow, with my left hand, I was able to
grab onto a mossy rock that started to go in
an incline that happened to be a section with the
only section of that sheer wall with a little ledge
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where I was able to sit. And I don't know
how I don't remember. I know that definitely God was
there and he blessed me with angels and strength to
be able to do that. And I was able to
just sit there. For most people, like sitting is pretty
typical and okay, but I was very hyperactive, always fidgeting,
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always doing something. I could never sit still. My parents
had to try to teach me and like how to
like work with the teats to make it so I
wasn't too disruptive during class, even just on my finger
tapping or just like he running around class. But God
definitely blest me with a peace of mind and calm
composure to be able to sit still on this tiny
little ledge.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
What a miracle. Rich actually went back like a year
or two later to this ledge that Zach had been
sitting on, and he tried to climb up on this
ledge and he said it was almost impossible. He was
really hard for him, and he is a grown man.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, and there was no current policeyeah when he did it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, I didn't have to fight this river. I mean,
it is amazing. And I truly believed that there were
angels that helped him on that ledge.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I do too, I absolutely believe that, And how crazy
was it too that Aaron just caught Zack when Zach
unexpectedly just he leaped into the air at him.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That was the craziest part. I love what Zach said
about that.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
When he was about five feet across from the river,
like holding onto the branch is to stay close to
the wall with the river dragging his feet backwards, he
motioned to me, like come closer, come closer. But I
thought he was saying like come to me, like jump
to me. I don't remember jumping, but I remember just
being on the ledge and all of a sudden I
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was in his arms. Somehow I was able to jump
into his arms, and he was able to miraculously let
go over the branch, catch on to me and just
hold me. At the time, I thought one of my
legs had gotten into the harness and that was safe,
and I was okay and I was good. But it
turns out that it hadn't gotten into that, and he
had just caught me and held on to me and
just bare hugged me.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And now something else that we weren't able to get
into in the story is that Aaron got all the
people off the river that night who were immediately around
Rich Zach and Marla. But there were a bunch of
hikers that still remained stranded there all night long.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, like over seventy people. Yeah, still on the mountain.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
And Aaron actually stayed with those people overnight. I mean,
you want to talk about a hero, Aaron is such
a hero. And here's what Aaron said about that night.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
The whole ground was just moving with water and the
fire was just barely going, and so we started getting
some people that were really getting cold. So the only
shelter that we had out there, hard shelter was an outhouse,
and so people started piling into this outhouse, the ones
that were really cold. I think they set a record
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for how many people you could get in an outhouse
because you know, it was a wooden one, like a
composting outthouse. But they had eighteen people in there or something,
and then at that they blocked the door.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
They wouldn't let anyone else in.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
So yeah, it turned out to be a long night,
but we got the critical ones into the outhouse and
everybody else we just you know, buddied up and tried
to keep the fire going and keep moving. And you know,
if you get really cold, get up and do some
lunges and some squats and keep the blood in your
leggs and essentially did that till the morning time, and
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then the helicopter came back in for us, and we
started loading everybody in three at a time, flying them out.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
So the next day, when the helicopter was bringing everybody
back from being rescued, there was someone there waiting for them.
It was Zach and his dad, Rich, and they were
handing out muffins and water. They felt so worried about
those people that they knew were still out there that
night in the cold, you know, and they wanted to
do something to help out.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
The next day, Rich said he felt so guilty going
home and sleeping in this nice, warm mitad when many
of the people who helped rescue his son were still
out there in the freezing cold rain. And I mean,
obviously Zach's situation was the most.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Dire, but yeah, to and Marla, yeah, and man wantedn't
care too. Yeah, Yeah, so obviously they needed to get
them home first. But yeah, there's one more thing that
we have to mention too. So to me, this is
definitely a huge part of the miracle. Before all of
this happened, the County Council in Kawai had discussed cutting
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the funds for the Air Rescue Team, and I mean,
helicopters are expensive, and the council had pretty much made
up their minds that they couldn't keep giving money to
this program and then it would be disbanded. So two
days after Zach was rescued, the county council held a
meeting ye to decide if the air Rescue.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Team would continue to receive funding or not. Yeah, and
after Zach and Rich were rescued, Rich was interviewed and
they played a recording of his interview at this council meeting,
and here's a clip from that.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
His name is Aaron Hawthorne, is the one who rescued
my son, Zachary.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And the pilot's name was Cliff. But there were other
people I don't know the other rescuer's name who were involved.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
But it was.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Only through the act of God and shoot their throwic
efforts that our family save.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
In this video you can see Zach and you get
a sense of just how young he was. Yeah, I mean,
I have an eleven year old son and I cannot
imagine having him trapped in this kind of situation going
through something so traumatic like this.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, and you can just hear in the video, Rich's
like sincere gratitude. And when the council members saw this video,
saw the faces a Rig and Zach, and I mean, how.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Could that not affect your heart?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
And the council ended up voting unanimously to continue the
funding of the air rescue team.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Here's what Rich said about it.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Here's this rescue team that's about to lose their funding
and because they performed this one miracle, and I get
interviewed that it helps save their team. And now, I
mean it's been ten plus years. They rescue about seventy
people a year, So you do the math of how
many people's lives have been affected by God performing this
miracle just for our family, and how much it touches
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people's lives. And I think it's a reminder of that
God exists and that God is real and that God
is good.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
God is real and He is so good. And there
were just so many amazing people in this story who
are willing to help complete strangers. And Rich actually wrote
all of this up in a book. So if you
want to hear more details about this story or purchase
it as a gift for a friend who you think
might enjoy this story. His book is called Surviving a
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Miracle and One Last Thing Before We Go. Zach has
a message for the people who helped rescue him.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
I want to thank them, thank them for putting their
lives on the line and for all the amazing work
they do. They're so selfless and they're so humble about
it as well, And I want to thank them everyone
who worse in similar positions that they do, who risk
their lives blessing other people. God definitely had his hand
directing and leading us, and he was definitely blessing us
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with many tender mercies and a lot of miracles. He
is so present in each of our lives, both in
the big things and small things. He really does care
and love for us.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Thank you so much to your whole family, Rich and Zach,
and thank you to Aaron for sharing this story with us.
And thanks to all of the rescue team and the
hikers who all pitched in to help this.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Family and to help each other.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
All of you, your examples just shine so brightly. Thank
you for joining us. If you have a miracle to share,
contact us at the Miracle Files. Dot com or find
us on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
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Speaker 3 (39:00):
Join us next time as we discover more of God's
miracles and don't forget to look for his light in
your own lives.
Zach looked so precarious, perched there on the ledge, doing
his best to hold still. Every few minutes, Zach would
get restless and move just slightly, and just slightly was
all it could take to end up back in the river.
Rich wasn't sure how much longer Zach could hang on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
As a twelve year old boy, he had never held
still a moment in his life, and I forced in
his mind you have to sit still. You cannot afford
to go in.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
The water level was rising, getting closer and closer to
Zach's tiny ledge. Rich's heart pounded as he realized if
Zach fell back in, there would be no more chances.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There's a big drop, a waterfall that's only about one
hundred foot downstream, and if he gets back in that river,
he's not going to survive it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This is the Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones and I'm
Holly Worthington. We're two sisters who love a captain true story,
but we're also seeking more light in our lives. So
we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable, uplifting
stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us on
this journey. Welcome, back to the Miracle files.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We've already made you wait long enough to see how
this story ends, so we're just gonna jump right into it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But first, here's a recap of part one.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We saw part of the waterfall, but you could almost
not see it because the wind just started howling.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They hurried across the stream, but unbeknownst to the green Bergs,
the water level was rising rapidly as unseen rain poured
down from the distant mountains above.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And out of the corner of my eye and my
peripheral vision, I see zac slip, and in essence, it
felt like someone really strong and powerful stoved me from behind.
And now Marla, who's in the backpack with me, and
me and my son's are now fighting for our lives
in heavy rapids. Further downstream, I saw a man standing
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on the river bank and I screamed as loud as
I could help. Oh, I had no idea what was
happening with Marla. Mike got in the river and he
extends this nine foot extendable tripod.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Rich managed to grasp hold of the tripod. Mike pulled
with all of his might, dragging Rich across the river
to the shore.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I rip off the backpack.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Miraculously, Marla was still in the backpack.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And I just hander in the backpack to these total
strangers because I'm now panicked about my son.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Racing down the trail. Rich pleaded with God to help
his son.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I called aloud to God, Please, God, don't let him dot.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Please to hut, don't let him to hut.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
All right, here is Flood of Miracles Part two. A
hidden current, a sudden pull, one misstep, and Zach was gone.
Rich Greenberg watched helplessly as a powerful flash flood dragged
his twelve year old son, Zack downstream. The churning water
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pulled Zach under, leaving only his head visible in the rapids.
In the now turbulent river, Zach fought the current to
no avail. He saw a couple of adults shouting to
him from the shore, but it was impossible to reach them.
He clawed at slippery rocks and stray branches, but the
rushing water tore him away every time. His strength was
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fading fast up the river. On the hiking trail, Rich
ran barefoot after his son. His heart pounded like thunder
in his chest, his desperation mounting. He knew all too well,
how treacherous this river was. He cried out to God
as he ran, pleading with his whole heart for a miracle.
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Down the trail, Rich found Mike's mom, Karen and her
partner Nino. They had seen Zach in the river and
had chased after him.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
As Zach was floating downstream, they were running alongside the
best they could, telling him keep your legs up so
they wouldn't make contact with the boulders in the river.
And so as I came across them, I was screaming frantically,
have you seen my son? Have you seen my boy?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There was something unsettling about the expressions on Karen's and
Nino's faces, a look of horror mixed with wonder.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And they said, he's over there, and they point across
the river. And now the river's swollen. It's good thirty
to forty feet across. And on the opposite side of
the river there's a several hundred foot rock wall that's
nearly vertical. It's unclimbable, and it's just covered with shrubs
and vines and greenery. And in set to this wall
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is a tiny little ledge and they're sitting on that ledge,
but only by the power of God is my son
his glasses intact.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Rich blinked in shock at the sight of his son.
How could it be in the midst of a raging river,
Zach had somehow grabbed hold of a moss covered ledge
several feet above him and pulled his body up onto it.
It made no logical sense, and yet somehow Zack sat
there squatting on the ledge, his backpack still on, only
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missing one shoe, and his glasses even still propped on
his nose. An overwhelming wave of relief washed over Rich.
The tightness in his chest relaxed for a moment, his
breathing returned. But then another question hit Rich with more
power than the torrential current. What now?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And I'm in total emotional wreck. I want to drop
to my knees and cry and thank God. But I
knew I didn't want to scare Zach, and so I
told him I loved him. I told him I was
so proud of him. I told him I had to
stay still, that he couldn't fall back in the river.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Unfortunately, Rich wasn't sure how much Zach could hear over
the roar of the rapids. Soon, a few other hikers
joined Rich, staring at Zach in dismay. Mike and Stacy
brought Marla and joined the onlookers. Suddenly, a thought struck Rich,
what must his wife be? Thinking she had to be terrified,
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He darted back up the trail to where the boulders
stood out of the water that had stopped him and Marla.
There he saw his wife, Carrie standing on the other
side of the river, her face pale with worry. She
was now trapped with Samantha and their friend Steve, along
with some other hikers and couldn't cross the river. Rich
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shouted to them.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And so I told him Zach is alive. And she said,
you're sure. I said, Zach's alive, and that's all I said.
I didn't tell her anything else. I was totally out
of my mind, and you could just see the emotion
that she had, not knowing in the relief that she had.
So I ran back downstream and totally out of my mind.
I could focus on one thing and one thing only,
and that was the safety of my son. Here was
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my young daughter with special needs. She was three, but
she was probably the size of a fourteen fifteen month old,
shivering in a diaper, sopping wet, and I'm a pediatric
emergency medicine physician, and nothing registered. And all these people said,
we got to get her out of the clothes. They
stripped her down, they donated all their gear, they gave
me some of their shoes, They wrapped her in fleece blankets,
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and then they said, we're going to send our two
fastest runners, Jessica and Johanna, who were sisters, down to
get help for your son. And so they took off running.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Rich looked across the river. We're relieved to see Zach
hanging on, but fear still coursed through Rich like a
freight train. The water level was rising, getting closer and
closer to Zach's tiny ledge. Rich's heart pounded as he
realized if Zach fell back in, there would be no
more chances. The rabbits were terrifying enough, but lurking down
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the river was something more deadly.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
There's a big drop, a waterfall that's only about one
hundred foot downstream, and if he gets back in that river,
he's not going to survive it. We had gone over
a couple of falls, a small and a medium drop
on our way, but this was a big fall. That
he couldn't survive.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And then things went from bad to worse.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The storm that had moved from above the waterfall now
had come full force, and so it was pouring harder
than I knew it could rain, and they were huge
gusts of winds, and the noise was deafening because you
had the river and the wind and the rain. And
Mike and Stacey offered to take Marla with them, and
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they said, you know, we're going to go get her help.
You can trust us. And I said, I trust you. You
saved my life, but I just have this feeling that
i'd need to keep my daughter with me. And they
said yeah. But he said, you know, I have a
little bit of medical experience. I think she needs to
be checked out. And I said, thank you so much,
but I'm a pediatric numacy medicine musician. I can see
she's okay. I just know she needs to be with me,
and so I kept her there. They went downstream, and
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about an hour later, Jessica and Johanna came back.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Rich looked at the two young women, hoping they'd found help. Unfortunately,
they had bad news.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
They said, we went to the next river crossing and
we can't cross it. It's too dangerous, so we can't
get help for your son.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Rich's heart sank once again. He was faced with the
brutal truth there was nothing he could do to help
his son, and time was running out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And I know at some point it's going to get dark,
and a bad situation is going to get worse. And
you know, I was sitting on this rock with Marla
bundled in these fleets, pouring rain, trying to keep her
under there, just praying and praying and praying and talking
to Zach as much as I could. I was singing
to Marla near continuously her favorite song, Heavenly Father, are
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you really there? Do you hear an answer every child's prayer, praying,
trying not to let Zach see me cry. If I
needed to cry. I picked my head under the fleece
with Marla started sobbing really quick, only to have Marla
touch my face and say, okay, Daddy, okay, Daddy, give
me a little pep talk, and then I'd pull my
head out and talk to Zach.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The hikers took turns, doing all they could to keep
Marla dry. One of the hikers tried to get Rich
to cover himself as well with one of the fleece blankets.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He tried to get me to cover myself and I wouldn't.
I was like, all the blankets and fleece and stoff
her for Marla, and He's like, no, you got to
take care of yourself. You got a drink. And at
that point I had no desire. I just wanted to
get Zach off that rock and keep Marla warm and dry.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
As Rich sat there, another thought dawned on him. He
hadn't told his wife, Carrie that their son was still
in danger, and as much as he dreaded telling her,
she needed to know. Once again. Rich left Marla with
the hikers and ran back upstream. He shouted across the
river and.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I said to Carrie, I neglected to tell you, in
my craziness of the situation, that Zach's alive and okay,
but he's across this river on this tiny little edge,
and we're going to figure a way getting them out
of there. And then you could see now the panic
in her eyes set back in and she said to me,
the backpack that you were carrying Marla in and your
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camelback are about to get swept in the river over there.
My initial thought was, who cares, it's a backpack. I
could care less about those things.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
In the chaos of the moment, Rich felt like the
backpacks were the least of his concerns, and they lay
dangerously close to the rising river. But as Rich stood there,
he felt prompted to follow his wife's advice.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But it was her wisdom. I just had this thought,
you need to go get that backpack right now. So
I walked carefully because it was right near the river's
edge and I didn't want to get swept back in,
and it was on slippery rocks, and I carefully retrieved
those backpacks. Thank goodness for the intuition and the spirit
my wife has to instruct me to do so, because
later I realized as I was with Marla, she didn't
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eat or drink anything, so she was totally tube fed.
In these backpacks that I retrieved were the syringes that
I needed to keep her hydrated as we waited for
a rescue. So I go back and I'm sitting on
this rock. Time is just passing by.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Zach looked so precarious, still perched there on the ledge,
doing his best to hold still. Every few minutes Zach
would get restless and moved just slightly, And just slightly
was all it could take to end up back in
the river. Rich wasn't sure how much longer Zach could
hang on.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
As a twelve year old boy, he had never held
still a moment in his life, except maybe for a
few seconds of sleeping each night. He was wiggly, moving,
couldn't hold still, needed something to do all the time.
And I forced in his mind, you have to sit
still on this rock. You cannot afford to go in.
So Nino and I instructed him to pull his feet
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up as far as he can and stood as far
back on that ledge as he could. He was just
sitting there across this forty foot raging river, had to
scream and use hand signals to get even any message
across to him.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Over three hours had now passed with no sign of
any kind of rescue in sight. With shivering hands, Zack
carefully pulled off his own backpack and found a sandwich
inside of it. He then pulled out a shirt from
his backpack. Shaking violently, Zach tried to cover himself with
the shirt. As time passed, the cramped ledge grew more
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and more unbearable for Zack's body and mind. Rich ached
for his boy, wishing desperately that he could help him.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm thinking to myself, if it gets dark, the river's rising,
it's pouring rain. Over the hours we're there, people watch
boulders being swallowed up as this river is rising. I
think he's going to fall asleep. We had hyped for hours.
He's exhausted by hours waiting there. He's going to fall asleep.
He's going to get swept in the river, and he's
going to one hundred percent sure die. So I thought
to myself, there's zero chance I'm going to allow that
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to happen. And so I'd said to myself, if it
gets near dark, I'm going to hand Marlow to one
of these strangers, teach them how to make her tube,
and I'm going in that river again and try and
get to that ledge because there's no way I'm and
allowed my son to die.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
As Rich contemplated his options, a hiker named John approached Rich.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He said, I've got to go downstream and get help
for your son, because if it gets dark, this is
going to get bad situation. And I said, please be careful.
I don't want you to get hurt, and he said,
I will, and so he goes downstream. It just happens
that this man John's hiking this very day, in this
very time, and he happens to be an expert outdoors
men who had done these seven day raises, and he
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had all of this skill.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
John, athletic and strong, hoped he could make it across
the river somehow. He knew he couldn't just stand there
and watch as the river level rose and the sky
grew darker and let this boy get swept away.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Forever there were these total strangers, don't need a clear gear,
willing to risk their safety in life. And so here's
this man. He gets in chesty raging flood, and he
watches the currents and he crosses part way. There was
a little kind of small land mass of tiny island
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in this river crossing, and he got all the way
there was able to wave to all of his fellow
hikers and family that hey, I made it this far.
And then he went a little bit further to the
next section of river, and it was too dangerous. He
just knew it was too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
John was further downstream attempting this crossing, and therefore Rich
could not see what happened. However, Rich was informed that
John was unable to cross the river. That was a
punch to the gut. But then Rich learned of something
else unfolding. A group of hikers on the other side
of the river noticed John and got close enough that
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John could call to them.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
He immediately springs into action and starts yelling at them, Hey,
you've got to get help. There's this boy in desperate
need of help. And so these people run down to
the next river crossing and they can't cross, and then
they play this game of telephone and they yell across
to the other people and they say, we'll go get help.
And then those people had to run two miles back
to the start of the hip where there's a beach
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and there's a lifeguard they found and they radio down
to the air rescue team who's about forty miles south
in a city called Lahui. So they get the radio
call and had been passed from person to person, So
at this point they just knew the rivers flooded, which
it does happen sometimes and people are in danger.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Rich hoped and prayed the message would reach someone who
could help them, but he was also realistic. He knew
the chances of a helicopter coming out in a raging
storm like this were beyond minute.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And as an er doc at Primary Children's at the time,
I knew it was the pilot's decision to fly or
not to fly based on weather, and I knew from
that experience a pilot doesn't put his crew in danger.
Because there had been some crashes and some deaths, they
don't put their crew in danger under trential downpour and
crazy conditions. I thought, there's no way they're getting a
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helicopter in this valley.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Which figured if anyone was coming for them, they would
have to hike in and it would take time, and
time was something they didn't have. Zach had now been
on the ledge for nearly five hours, and the sun
began dipping in the sky. Their situation was getting more
and more dire by the minute. Zack tried to stay alert,
but he was exhausted and freezing. The water level near
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the bottom of the ledge now Marla shivered in Rich's arms,
yet he could offer her no warmth. Karen left to
go find a different blanket. Nino stood with Rich, trying
to offer moral support, but Rich felt helpless and despair
began to take hold of his heart. A tragic ending
for his family seemed as inevitable as the darkening sky.
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Just then, Rich heard a tiny voice call to him.
It came from his poor, sopping, wet, trembling, suffering, tender
yet mighty Marla.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Marla says to me, pray. And when Marla says pray,
usually that means she wants me to sing her song.
Heavenly Father, are you really there? Do you hear and
answer every child's prairer? I say, do you want to sing?
And I start singing and she says, pray. He's interrupting me,
and she keeps saying pray, And I said, do you
want to say a prayer? And it was clear she
was asking me to say a prayer, and so I
helped her. And she said, this sweet, beautiful prayer. Do
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you have me?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Father?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And we asked for Zach's protection and ended in the
name of Jesus Christ's Amen.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Rich looked up from the prayer through the driving rain.
Some of the other hikers ran toward them and laid
a waterproof blanket over Marla, And then Rich heard the
most incredible sound. It couldn't be yet. It was the
faint chop of a helicopter echoed in the distance. It's
thrumb growing stronger with each passing second. His heart leapt
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at the thought. Was help really on the way? The
helicopter soared into view. It's pilot waving to let their
group know he was aware of them, flew past and
then looped around.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Here comes this helicopter flying downstream towards us, and there's
a man in a harness tethered by a rope, one
hundred feet below the helicopter.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The helicopter hovered over their group. There wasn't a minute
to spare. Rich wave to get the helicopter's attention. Yes,
save my son. He thought, he's running out of time.
But then Rich's stomach dropped like a bowling ball. He
watched as the man hanging below the helicopter swooped down,
landed on the ground, and grabbed one of the hikers
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standing on the shore.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And as is their protocol, the man's name is Aaron,
the rescue worker. He grabs the first person that he
can get a hold of. Because it was later in
the day and they knew they could only rescue so
many people with the gas they had and the time
of day, because once it gets dark they can't do this.
So he grabs this man Eric, who is one of
the hikers who was there helping us, and he starts
putting him in the harness and Nino, Eric and I
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are screaming at this man, like, why is he helping
this person when my son is in so much danger?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
In panic, the crowd flapped their arms and screamed and yelled. Aaron,
the rescue worker, looked around at them, confused at the response.
From Aaron's vantage point, he couldn't see Zach at all.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And so we're yelling at him and he's like, what
are you talking about? And we're pointing to him because
it's so loud you can't communicate, and we point across
and he finally sees Zach strand us on this ledge.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If you can imagine, this scene was something Erin had
never experienced before. No training could have prepared him for
a young boy perched precariously on a small ledge above
a roaring river next to a sheer cliff. We interviewed
Erin so he could describe his own thoughts and feelings
at this shocking moment. Here's erin.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
So I lowered him through the trees.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I'm on a hundred foot line going through a large canopy,
so the pilot and captain can't really see that well.
As I went in through the trees, I landed there
and grabbed the first guy came up to He said, okay,
I'm going to get you out of here, and he says,
leave me, go save the boy. And I was like,
I don't know what you're talking about. Any points across
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the river. And that was the first time I saw
Zach hanging onto the rocks in the river there. I
had no idea that he was even up in this area.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Aaron had to devise a plan quickly.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I knew I didn't have any time to waste and
I couldn't grab Zach and put a kid up on
another ledge without any supervision, and so I just told
that guy, I'm going to take you first. You're going
to become my basically what we call casualty collection point.
You're going to be my guy, and I'm bringing everyone
to you. And we flew up to our upper landing zone.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Aaron radioed the helicopter his shock couldn't be contained.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
After I dropped him.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
We flew back to Zach's location, and I remember telling
the captain and the pilot, we get this kid in
the water, we get kind of a radical situation coming up.
And the captain said, Okay, you're going to have to
take a deep breath and slow down. I didn't understand
anything he said, so I must have been pretty excited
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because I was talking really fat.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Erin explained to the pilot what he wanted him to do,
but of course Aaron had no idea if any of
it would work. This was a risk, but it was
one he was willing to take.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
So I explained the situation again.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I told him just lower me straight into the water
across from these guys, and then you're just gonna have
to swing me into the cliff because Zach was hanging
on and there was an overhang above them, so we
couldn't come directly down to him. And they put me
about maybe waist deep in the water, thigh deep, the
waist deep in the raging water, and then I just
had him start moving me.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
In Rich and the other hikers watched what was happening.
Everyone held their breath as they saw Erin try to
swing towards Zach Erin did the best he could to
communicate with the pilot above him, and.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Aaron's using hand signals like go this way, go this way,
go this way, and all of a sudden he gives
him the kill signal by you know, going his hand
across his neck, like, hey, this is as close as
we're gonna get. So the pilot now is holding the
helicopter totally dead still with torrential downpour and huge gusts
of winds. While Aaron was motioning Zach, you could see
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Zach's hesitancy, like I had drilled for five hours. You
can't fall in, You can't fall in. Do not move,
stay on that ledge, stay back, pull back, pull back.
And then when the helicopter came in, it was blowing
him and I was like, you gotta hold on, you
gotta hold on. I was just watching and watching him,
like how is Aaron? How is this guy going to
get to him? And he's trying, like he's holding onto
this branch and he's trying to pull himself, but the
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conditions are such he can't get closer.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Both Aaron and Zach found themselves in a conundrum. The
question of the day still filled the air with tension.
What now?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
And I got about maybe six feet away from Zach,
and I'm thinking, Okay, I'm not really sure how I'm
going to do this.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
You know, eventually the rope's gonna hit. I'm not going
to be able to get to him. Zach's looking at.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Me and he says, I don't know what to do.
I was like, well, in that same boat, I'm not
sure how we're going to do it this either.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Aaron motioned with his fingers to see if Zack could
screw any closer to him, but instead, Zach did something
that shocked everyone. Without warning, he leaped into the air
rich and all the hikers gasped in horror. Aarin was
caught completely off guard, but there was only one thing
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left to do. He reached for Zach.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I caught him, and I just wrapped my legs around him.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
In a moment of relief, Aaron realized he had hold
of the boy. But both Aaron and Zach sank deep.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Into the water, and then current pulled us out into
more into the opening. And I was unable to now
use the radio because I couldn't key the mic, so
I couldn't reach up with my hand because I'm holding
on to Zach and we're getting bucked around pretty good
in the water.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Here.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Aaron clung to Zach with all his strength, but the
current still threatened to pull Zach from his grasp.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
And as the current brings us into the opening, now
the helicopter could finally see us. And when we're unable
to use our hands and the rescue, we put a
big cross on top of our helmet, and then we
use head signals in order to indicate.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
What we need the pilot to do.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I was able to signal them with my head
to tell him take us up. So he lifted us
up out of the stream, which was great at first,
but I was thinking, Okay, we'll go to the bank
and I'll package this kit up because I'm holding on
to Zach. He's holding on to me. Next thing you know,
I'm two hundred five hundred feet up in the air.
I'm like, uh oh, that's a little more exciting than
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I wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The hikers watched as Aaron and Zach were lifted into
the sky. Rich hugged Nino, crying in disbelief.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
The pilot airlesson hundreds of feet in the air and
I'm watching this in pure amazement, like I can't believe
this is actually happening, let alone happening to me.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It's a scene that Hollywood couldn't recreate if they wanted to,
and just we're so grateful that call that see fit
to perform his miracle.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Aaron held tight to Zach as Zach gripped Aaron in return.
They flew through the air with no harness on Zach
at all, but it was a moment of triumph. Nonetheless,
Soon the pilot set Zach and Aerin down carefully on
the landing zone. At last, both Aaron and Zach heaved
a giant sigh of relief. But Aaron didn't have time
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to sit and celebrate. He had more lives to save.
When it was Rich's turn to go, a new fear
washed over him.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Aaron came back grabbed Nino. I told him about Marla
because he didn't really know about Marla, and he said,
go get your daughter. I'm going to rescue Nino and
then your next.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Rich watched as Nino was secured and lifted into the air.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And so I saw how I was going to get rescued,
and unfortunately I have a let's say healthy respect or
I e a terrible fear of heights. So I knew
it was about to happen, and I didn't want it,
but I knew I had no other choice, and so
I said to myself, Okay, don't say anything. Don't say anything.
Don't say anything. And so he lands and he starts
putting both Marla and I in the same harness because
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he's like, it's only designed for one and he's got
us wrapped in this harness and I just stare at him,
and I say, I just couldn't help it. This guttural
thing came out of me. I said, I'm deathly afraid
of heights. And he was so annoyed at me. Here
he was risking his life to save me and my family,
and here I'm being a whimp. And he just stared
right in my eyes and he said, too bad for you.
We got to get you the hell out of here,
and he said go. And then so we're airlifted and
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he's just holding off because he didn't have to, but
he just especially with Marla there, he just held on
to us and my eyes almost the whole time because
I was dead scared. And then he landed us on
this ledge.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
The incident, Rich was free from his harness. He ran
straight to Zach and wrapped his son tightly in his arms.
He held him there, sobbing, in an embrace that said
everything words never could.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
And I ran over and embraced him, and one of
the most beautiful, beautiful moments of my life, being able
to hold my boy again.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Then Aaron went and rescued everyone else from my side
of the river, and then went upstream and one by
one rescued Carrie and Samantha and Steve and Margaret NaNs
and the other couple that were there.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It was supposed to be a simple day, a family
hike to a scenic waterfall. Instead, it was an experience
that no one would ever forget. Zach Greenberg had held
onto a rock to life, Rich had held onto faith,
Little Marla had held on to prayer, a group of
hikers held on to hope, and Aaron had held on
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to a scrawny twelve year old boy in a harrowing
flight through the air. It was a story of strength
of family and a moment where everything could have ended
very differently, but for the heroic individuals and God. This
experience is now a memory for the greenbrig family, but
Rich Carrie and their children will forever hold on together
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to the flood of miracles they received.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
This family really did experience so many miracles, and one
of the greatest of those is how in the world
did Zack get up on that ledge.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know, Karen and Nino said they watched him and
he used his non dominant hand, yeah, to reach up.
Somehow he grabs onto this almost vertical rock wall and
pulls himself up on these slippery, moss covered rocks while
he's getting pulled away in the current. Like it really
does seem almost impossible, but.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, yeah, So we actually interviewed Zach and we have
a SoundBite from him that we'd love to share.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
I don't know how I got into this sledge is
definitely a miracle. But somehow I was going feet first
down the river, my belly was facing upwards in the water,
and somehow, with my left hand, I was able to
grab onto a mossy rock that started to go in
an incline that happened to be a section with the
only section of that sheer wall with a little ledge
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where I was able to sit. And I don't know
how I don't remember. I know that definitely God was
there and he blessed me with angels and strength to
be able to do that. And I was able to
just sit there. For most people, like sitting is pretty
typical and okay, but I was very hyperactive, always fidgeting,
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always doing something. I could never sit still. My parents
had to try to teach me and like how to
like work with the teats to make it so I
wasn't too disruptive during class, even just on my finger
tapping or just like he running around class. But God
definitely blest me with a peace of mind and calm
composure to be able to sit still on this tiny
little ledge.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
What a miracle. Rich actually went back like a year
or two later to this ledge that Zach had been
sitting on, and he tried to climb up on this
ledge and he said it was almost impossible. He was
really hard for him, and he is a grown man.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, and there was no current policeyeah when he did it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, I didn't have to fight this river. I mean,
it is amazing. And I truly believed that there were
angels that helped him on that ledge.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I do too, I absolutely believe that, And how crazy
was it too that Aaron just caught Zack when Zach
unexpectedly just he leaped into the air at him.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That was the craziest part. I love what Zach said
about that.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
When he was about five feet across from the river,
like holding onto the branch is to stay close to
the wall with the river dragging his feet backwards, he
motioned to me, like come closer, come closer. But I
thought he was saying like come to me, like jump
to me. I don't remember jumping, but I remember just
being on the ledge and all of a sudden I
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was in his arms. Somehow I was able to jump
into his arms, and he was able to miraculously let
go over the branch, catch on to me and just
hold me. At the time, I thought one of my
legs had gotten into the harness and that was safe,
and I was okay and I was good. But it
turns out that it hadn't gotten into that, and he
had just caught me and held on to me and
just bare hugged me.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And now something else that we weren't able to get
into in the story is that Aaron got all the
people off the river that night who were immediately around
Rich Zach and Marla. But there were a bunch of
hikers that still remained stranded there all night long.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, like over seventy people. Yeah, still on the mountain.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
And Aaron actually stayed with those people overnight. I mean,
you want to talk about a hero, Aaron is such
a hero. And here's what Aaron said about that night.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
The whole ground was just moving with water and the
fire was just barely going, and so we started getting
some people that were really getting cold. So the only
shelter that we had out there, hard shelter was an outhouse,
and so people started piling into this outhouse, the ones
that were really cold. I think they set a record
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for how many people you could get in an outhouse
because you know, it was a wooden one, like a
composting outthouse. But they had eighteen people in there or something,
and then at that they blocked the door.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
They wouldn't let anyone else in.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
So yeah, it turned out to be a long night,
but we got the critical ones into the outhouse and
everybody else we just you know, buddied up and tried
to keep the fire going and keep moving. And you know,
if you get really cold, get up and do some
lunges and some squats and keep the blood in your
leggs and essentially did that till the morning time, and
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then the helicopter came back in for us, and we
started loading everybody in three at a time, flying them out.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
So the next day, when the helicopter was bringing everybody
back from being rescued, there was someone there waiting for them.
It was Zach and his dad, Rich, and they were
handing out muffins and water. They felt so worried about
those people that they knew were still out there that
night in the cold, you know, and they wanted to
do something to help out.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
The next day, Rich said he felt so guilty going
home and sleeping in this nice, warm mitad when many
of the people who helped rescue his son were still
out there in the freezing cold rain. And I mean,
obviously Zach's situation was the most.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Dire, but yeah, to and Marla, yeah, and man wantedn't
care too. Yeah, Yeah, so obviously they needed to get
them home first. But yeah, there's one more thing that
we have to mention too. So to me, this is
definitely a huge part of the miracle. Before all of
this happened, the County Council in Kawai had discussed cutting
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the funds for the Air Rescue Team, and I mean,
helicopters are expensive, and the council had pretty much made
up their minds that they couldn't keep giving money to
this program and then it would be disbanded. So two
days after Zach was rescued, the county council held a
meeting ye to decide if the air Rescue.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Team would continue to receive funding or not. Yeah, and
after Zach and Rich were rescued, Rich was interviewed and
they played a recording of his interview at this council meeting,
and here's a clip from that.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
His name is Aaron Hawthorne, is the one who rescued
my son, Zachary.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And the pilot's name was Cliff. But there were other
people I don't know the other rescuer's name who were involved.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
But it was.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Only through the act of God and shoot their throwic
efforts that our family save.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
In this video you can see Zach and you get
a sense of just how young he was. Yeah, I mean,
I have an eleven year old son and I cannot
imagine having him trapped in this kind of situation going
through something so traumatic like this.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, and you can just hear in the video, Rich's
like sincere gratitude. And when the council members saw this video,
saw the faces a Rig and Zach, and I mean, how.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Could that not affect your heart?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
And the council ended up voting unanimously to continue the
funding of the air rescue team.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Here's what Rich said about it.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Here's this rescue team that's about to lose their funding
and because they performed this one miracle, and I get
interviewed that it helps save their team. And now, I
mean it's been ten plus years. They rescue about seventy
people a year, So you do the math of how
many people's lives have been affected by God performing this
miracle just for our family, and how much it touches
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people's lives. And I think it's a reminder of that
God exists and that God is real and that God
is good.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
God is real and He is so good. And there
were just so many amazing people in this story who
are willing to help complete strangers. And Rich actually wrote
all of this up in a book. So if you
want to hear more details about this story or purchase
it as a gift for a friend who you think
might enjoy this story. His book is called Surviving a
(37:40):
Miracle and One Last Thing Before We Go. Zach has
a message for the people who helped rescue him.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
I want to thank them, thank them for putting their
lives on the line and for all the amazing work
they do. They're so selfless and they're so humble about
it as well, And I want to thank them everyone
who worse in similar positions that they do, who risk
their lives blessing other people. God definitely had his hand
directing and leading us, and he was definitely blessing us
(38:12):
with many tender mercies and a lot of miracles. He
is so present in each of our lives, both in
the big things and small things. He really does care
and love for us.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Thank you so much to your whole family, Rich and Zach,
and thank you to Aaron for sharing this story with us.
And thanks to all of the rescue team and the
hikers who all pitched in to help this.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Family and to help each other.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
All of you, your examples just shine so brightly. Thank
you for joining us. If you have a miracle to share,
contact us at the Miracle Files. Dot com or find
us on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
We're now releasing multiple episodes each month, so subscribe on
your favorite podcast platform and YouTube for amazing video content
as well.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Join us next time as we discover more of God's
miracles and don't forget to look for his light in
your own lives.
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