Just days after Dr. Jared Burks' wife snapped a photo of him taking a quick break from his hospital duties fighting the coronavirus pandemic to greet their toddler son through a glass door in their Arkansas home, the physician narrowly escaped death on Saturday when a tornado ripped through his community
The photo of Burks and his one-year-old son, Zeke, pressing their palms against the glass door was posted on Facebook by his wife, Alyssa Burks, and quickly went viral as people across the country thanked the doctor and his colleagues for risking their lives to save others during the global health crisis.
Alyssa Burks said she had taken Zeke to her parents' house to keep the required social distance from her husband when the funnel cloud touched down. She said she was watching the evening news Saturday and immediately called her husband to warn him of reports of twisters in the area.“I called him and said there’s a really really big tornado,” said Alyssa Burks, adding that she and her husband concluded that the best thing for him to do was to stay hunkered down in the house.
One silver lining to the young couple's hard-luck story is that Alyssa still has the photo on her cell phone of father and son greeting each other through the glass door.Besides capturing a touching moment, the photo also caught a milestone achievement for both Zeke and his dad. It was the first time Jared Burks was able to watch his little boy crawl, Alyssa Burks told ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock.
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