While covering the flooding in Big Rapids, Michigan, WOOD-TV Photographer Kyle Wilson acted quick and used his gear to help save a man in the flood waters.

Wilson was recording video of the flooding at Mitchell Creek Park in Big Rapids on Wednesday afternoon, a young man jumped into the water. The current started to carry him away. He grabbed on to a bench, but that was being washed away, too. Wilson grabbed a portable lighting pole, extended it out for the young man and pulled him to safety.