Wow. I know this isn't politics, but Jesus.
A mother and her three children drowned after she drove their minivan into the Hudson River Tuesday night, but her 10-year-old son escaped and ran for help, Newburgh fire chief Michael Vattar says.
He says the boy was a passenger in the car when it went off a boat ramp and was "soaking wet" when he reached the nearby fire station looking for help. Vatter says he was accompanied by an unidentified woman who picked him up when he came out of the river.
Vatter says firefighters and search teams went immediately to the scene and eventually found the vehicle in 8 feet of murky water about 25 feet offshore. "It was not floating, it was under water," he said at a news conference this morning.
Divers found the unidentified woman, her two boys, ages 5 and 2, and an 11-month-old girl inside the vehicle in 10 feet of water about 25 feet from the shore.
