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TAMPA BAY, Fla. - An NFL player is being hailed as a hero for jumping into action with others after a helicopter crashed off the coast of Davis Island.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers backup quarterback Blaine Gabbert and several others worked together as a rescue team to help get people out of the downed helicopter.Hunter Hupp was on the tour with his parents. He said he was worried that they weren’t going to make it out alive. “My dad was able to get a door open. Helicopters are not watertight, and when the door opened it filled up fast,” Hupp said.“It’s like those movies where water slowly fills the room and you take your last breath of air,” Hupp said. “I really thought I was going to die in that helicopter.”“I was expecting the worst-case scenario once I realized it was a helicopter,” Gabbert said.Tampa police, firefighters, the Coast Guard, and Marine Patrol all responded to the scene too.
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