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KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — For former Kernersville Officer Sean Houle, divine intervention isn’t just an idea. He says it’s been his reality more than once.
His name probably sounds familiar, because in 2021, Houle was shot three times by a suspect and survived.
His injuries forced him to retire from his work as a police officer and his K-9 Jax, but he never wavered from his calling to serve.
On July 4, that call rang loud and clear on the sands of North Myrtle Beach and he sprang into action to save a life.
“He went into the water … He was fighting the current, and he kept fighting it until … he got tired, and he remembers being swept away by the current,” Houle said.
Houle and his family were enjoying themselves in Myrtle Beach when he noticed something was wrong.
“We were watching the kids playing in the surf. I looked to my right and saw a small crowd gathering around what looked to me like a man lying on his back in the surf,” he said.
Houle, a retired officer who currently works at the Stokes County Emergency Department, saw a woman performing CPR and ran over to help.
“I took a breath,” Houle said. “We load the guy on a backboard, the backboard on a pickup truck, and they zoom him off to a waiting ambulance that had already been called.”
Houle hoped the man was okay and asked a lifeguard about him the next day. The man returned to the beach.
“I look around and see a couple of others who were part of our group that day, standing there as well. They found him too and it’s going to be a big reunion,” Houle said.
The man’s name is Bill, and Bill and his family were able to hug and thank the people who came to his aid on the beach that day.
For the second time in his life, Houle said, he knew he was in the midst of divine intervention.
“The Lord is still performing miracles in 2024… Just as I should have been dead by 2021, this man absolutely should have been dead… By the grace of God, he drifts to a part of the beach where there are a handful of people with the skills necessary to save his life… That is not a coincidence,” Houle said.
It wasn’t even the beach they normally go to for their vacation. Their normal camping spot was booked and they ended up at the right place at the right time.
