WATCH: Hero cop rescued from Hurricane Helene flash flood, immediately helps injured man: 'It's what we do'

Video captured a Tennessee authorities trooper's heroic rescue during Hurricane Helene flooding aft she was rescued and went consecutive backmost to enactment to assistance different stranded person.

Jason Pack, a retired FBI peculiar cause and manager of communications for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, shared with Fox News Digital the bravery Trooper Hannah Smathers displayed during the Hurricane Helene disaster.

Pack said Smathers was finishing a clang study from the erstwhile displacement erstwhile dispatch received a telephone to assistance with checking flood-prone roadways.

"I was really successful the office, finishing a clang study from the erstwhile day, erstwhile we got a telephone to assistance Unicoi with checking the roadway for flooding," Smathers recalled during an interrogation connected the "Hurricane Helene Heroes" series. "That’s a beauteous communal telephone erstwhile there’s atrocious weather. They wanted maine to cheque Spivey Mountain Road, truthful I headed out. It didn’t instrumentality agelong to get there." 

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Tennessee State Trooper Hannah Smathers is being hailed arsenic a leader for jumping close backmost into enactment aft she was rescued from Hurricane Helene floodwaters.  (The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security)

While the conditions initially looked manageable, Smathers said they rapidly changed. 

"I was seeing it firsthand," she said. "The creek had started rising and was rapidly moving onto the roadway." 

But arsenic floodwaters from Hurricane Helene roseate astir her patrol vehicle, Pack said Smathers didn’t panic. 

"She radioed in, waited for help, and erstwhile she was safe, she went close backmost to work," Pack shared. 

Pack said Smathers became trapped by rising h2o conscionable aft she helped 2 pedestrians get retired of the country and offered assistance to a stranded driver. However, minutes later, Pack said she realized she couldn’t get out.

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Dashcam video shows the rescue of Tennessee State Trooper Hannah Smathers during Hurricane Helene flooding.   (The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security)

"There was nary mode guardant and nary mode back," Smathers recalled. "I called it successful and waited."

The h2o rescue squad had Smathers region her ballistic vest and work loop and tossed her a enactment to propulsion her retired of her stranded vehicle.

"I had to instrumentality disconnected my vest, my belt—everything," Smathers said. "They threw maine a lifejacket and a rope. But determination was nary harness. If I fto spell of that rope, I was going with the water." 

Smathers exited her car and wrong seconds, the existent swept her legs retired from nether her. 

"The 2nd I stepped distant from my car, my feet were swept retired from nether me," she said. "I went underwater, but I held onto the rope. That was my lone chance." 

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Once Smathers gathered herself and was safe, she rapidly jumped backmost into action, soaked and covered successful mud.

"Once I got out, I saw different operator had breached his ankle," Smathers explained. "So I helped transportation him to information too."

Smathers stayed connected displacement for the adjacent 18 hours, contempt being trapped earlier and inactive filthy from her ain rescue, saying she did it "because it's what we do." 

"What I went done was thing compared to what immoderate radical mislaid that day," Smathers said.

"I cognize sometimes it sounds cliché erstwhile radical accidental they conscionable privation to assistance others," she continued. "But that’s truly what this occupation is about. Helping people. Making definite they’re safe. That’s each I was trying to bash that day." 

Col. Matt Perry of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said her actions that time correspond each troopers.

"Trooper Smathers showed precisely what we expect from the Highway Patrol troopers – calm nether unit and a bosom for service," Perry said. "She didn’t inquire for attention. She conscionable got the occupation done."

Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Jeff Long besides praised Smathers and said "her actions are a reflection of what our troopers bash each day, often without recognition." 

"What Trooper Smathers did that time exemplifies the dedication our authorities troopers bring to their communities," Long said. "She showed courage, humility, and heart. Whether successful a flood, a clang scene, oregon a regular patrol, our troopers are retired determination each time making Tennessee safer." 

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Hurricane Helene created billions of dollars worthy of harm erstwhile it destroyed homes, farms and captious infrastructure similar roads, bridges and powerfulness lines. Parts of highways connecting North Carolina and Tennessee person been closed since precocious September.

More than 100 radical died arsenic a effect of the hurricane successful North Carolina alone, and the full decease number is much than 230 crossed six states, including South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and Florida. 

Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.