‘In Attic Help’: Elderly Couple and Their Two Dogs Are Rescued From Storm Sally by Water

‘In Attic Help’: Elderly Couple and Their Two Dogs Are Rescued From Storm Sally by Water
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The Associated Press
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The firetrucks and rescue vehicles kept passing her house even after Elaine Hulgan, 76, wrote “IN ATTIC HELP” on the front door. So Hulgan’s 84-year-old husband resorted to his best emergency signal: an ear-splitting whistle.

The noise rose above the din, and a firefighter on a Jet Ski soon rescued the couple and their two dogs off the front stoop of their brick home.