A Texas teenager is being hailed as a hero after she helped her family escape their van before being swept away and killed in a flash flood.
On July 5th, 17-year-old Malaya Hammond and her family were driving through the Hill Country shortly after 5 a.m. when torrential rain obscured their view of a washed-out bridge. Their minivan plunged into the flood-swollen river, according to a family friend, Mikki Willis.
