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I’ve never had anyone risk their life for me,” David Boutin, the man Boone McCrary had set out to rescue said. “From what I hear that was the way he always been. He’s my guardian angel, that’s for sure.

As the Hurricane Helene-driven waters rose around the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, Boone McCrary, his girlfriend and his chocolate lab headed out on his fishing boat to search for a man who was stranded by floodwaters that had leveled his home.