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swallowed whole neighborhoods. armstrong's wife lynn didn't make it. >> came over the roof. i would imagine 21 feet at least. we were doing all right until the water kept coming up and all the appliances were going around the house like a washing machine. i probably got hit with something in bed and my poor little wife got hypothermia and standing on top of the kitchen cabinets until they disintegrated and i kept with her and she just drowned on me. >> reporter: i'm so sorry. [crying] >> i know. i know. >> reporter: how did you get out? >> i got out. i had a big boat anchored in there. i'm a crab fisherman and i have a 40-footer which stayed there so i didn't even think it was there, so i had got out of the house after my wife drowned and
were on a fishing trip and you woke up to the sound of someone beating on the side of your boat. >> yeah, that's correct. it was about 3:30 in the morning. we heard someone beating on the side of the boat. i got up and as i went to the door and got out and opened the door and there were five guys in a rubber dinghy at the transom and they were calling for help and i looked out just beyond him and here's a boat that was totally engulfed in fire at the time. >> how far away was the boat that was on fire from you? >> maybe about 400 yards. it wasn't terribly far. >> how were they, the people you were rescuing? what were they -- >> they were pretty distraught. several of them were crying. one of the crewman had a broken leg. he was in a lot of pain.