A young boy was engulfed in a dust devil on a Florida baseball field. The moment he was rushed away by an umpire was caught on camera. MORE ⬇️
It was a frightening scene at a youth baseball game as a swirling funnel of wind and dust engulfed a 7-year-old catcher on a Jacksonville, Florida baseball field.
It was estimated that the wind speed for the vortex could have been rushing anywhere from 30 to 40 miles per hour. Wiles told local media,"I just saw him freaked out, just like couldn’t find his way out, and I knew his little body couldn’t handle it, so I just rushed in and got him."
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