Houston police officer battling cancer braves floodwaters to rescue residents
(FOX NEWS) - A Houston police officer battling stage 4 metastatic colon cancer has helped to rescue hundreds from the floodwaters left behind by historic storm Harvey.
Norbert Ramon, who has been with the Houston Police Department's Traffic Enforcement division for 24 years, received the call from his sergeant as the rain started to fall on Saturday.
"He went and they started preparing everything and that's when the rain started in," Cindy Ramon, the 55-year-old's wife, told Fox News. "By Sunday morning when he woke up, there was so much rain and standing water that he could not go to his regular duty in downtown Houston."
Ramon followed protocol and notified his sergeant, and then set out to report to the nearest patrol unit, which was the Houston Lake Patrol.