The radio announcer for the New York Yankees was pulled from his car as it filled with floodwaters from Hurricane Ida, which has claimed the lives of 13 New York City residents so far.
Rickie Ricardo, the announcer for Spanish-language broadcasts of Yankee games, was on his way home from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx when fellow broadcaster Suzyn Waldman called to tell him Sterling was stuck on River Road in Edgewater, New Jersey, Ricardo told WFAN.
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“Alright, Suzyn, I’m on my way … I’ll figure out where he’s at, and I’ll see what I can do,” Ricardo said he told Waldman on Wednesday before setting out to rescue Sterling.
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After several phone calls with the Yankee broadcaster trying to determine the location of Sterling, who was in the dark due to a power outage, Ricardo reached the Edgewater intersection, where there were “no less than 25 cars stranded,” Ricardo said.
Once Ricardo found Sterling, Ricardo rolled up his pant legs, waded out into the water, pulled Sterling out of his vehicle and resettled him into Ricardo’s Jeep, after which the two headed toward Sterling’s home.
While the apartment was “no more than half a mile away” from their location, it took about an hour for them to drive to reach the home due to road closures.
“It was a jigsaw puzzle,” Ricardo said, adding it took him an hour to travel one mile to his home after dropping off Sterling.
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Hurricane Ida’s remnants have killed 45 people so far in the Northeastern area of the United States. In New Jersey, 23 have died from floodwaters, while 13 more have died in New York.
Representatives for Major League Baseball and the Yankees did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner‘s requests for comment.
