WILSON FRANCIS is one tough man. And a brave fellow too, to say the least.
The 51-year-old former policeman lay in his small bed on top of a 250-metre mountain in Dominica on Tuesday, refusing to move, opting not to be saved by a Barbadian-led search and rescue team that had put their own lives at risk to keep him alive after Tropical Storm Erika struck last Thursday.
Francis, both legs swollen, and with small flies circling wounds on his malnourished legs, kept a bucket under his bed for personal relief, and pulled a sheet over his midriff.
“I cool, man. I ain’t going nowhere,” he told firefighters who had climbed two mountain faces with special equipmemt to save him from the village of Petite Savanne, located on Dominica’s south-eastern coast.
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