A Florida man who was freed from the rubble of his collapsed home with a cigar clenched between his teeth said, despite not being a religious man, his survival could only be explained by "divine intervention," according to a report.
A neighbor rescued George Bustillo after an unforeseen tornado ripped through Port Salerno, Florida, on Wednesday and completely destroyed his family's home. When he was pulled from the rubble, Bustillo still had his cigar between his teeth.
"I was smoking a cigar before. I was smoking it during the emergency," Bustillo told WSVN. "The way I live life."
Bustillo explained to WSVN that he had little time to react.
"The house explodes, two seconds, I'm under debris," Bustillo told WSVN 7News. "I was buried underneath the bottom of that structure."
While one neighbor freed his wife, another searched for Bustillo as the trapped man shouted, "Come over I'm pinned down, come, hurry, help me," he said.
Bustillo, his wife, and their dog walked away from their destroyed home nearly unscathed, which they can attribute to just one thing.
"I've never been a religious person, but this is a miracle. It was divine intervention, no question about it," Bustillo said. "Someone was looking over my wife, there was an angel looking over me, and another one over my dog."
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