San Diego couple describes the escape jet crash scene – NBC 7 San Diego

Srujana McCarty woke up on Thursday shortly before 4 a.m., which sounded like “two crashes”. She said she “shot up straight away”, alerted her husband Ben McCarty and checked her two young children, who still slept and ran down to see what happened.

“I went into the living room, to the noise, and the floor was only covered with ruins,” she said to NBC 7.

When she said she could “see” the night sky on the other side of the room, she knew that she had to act quickly to get her family out of the house.

Srujana and Ben grabbed their 2- and 4-year-olds and their two dogs, of which a Lola is called, and looked for exit routes. Ben announced that his white RAM pickup was initially parked on the street outside of her living room since then had been pressed over the lawn since then and has almost been a break in it.

They ran into the back yard, remembered Srujana, and a neighbor named Gilbert tried to help them get to safety by holding a ladder along a high plastic fence. In a video obtained from NBC 7, they hear the neighbors with the McCarty family to raise the dogs over the fence and safe, while a large fire burned directly on the other side of the McCarty house.

The next morning Ben NBC 7 said that he saw a clip in the news and found that her house in the neighborhood was most damaged.

“Many things had to happen so that we were to be safe as if this truck hadn't been there and the plane instead hit our house, then it would probably have been a different story,” he said.

The McCarty family was moved to another home in the same Liberty Military Housing Community called Santo Terrace. There are 2,300 houses, and some of them are free or as “displacement houses”, which according to Capt. Bob Heely, the commander of Naval Base San Diego, are fully furnished.

However, the couple said that they want to stay in military apartments, but not under the flight path.

“The smallest noises, like the fan in the bathroom, really disgusted for me because it sounded right after the engine's goal, and so it sounded like that,” said Srujana, “and the water falls into the shower on the floor like popping the explosions that were also done after the accident.”

They agree that it will take some time to recover from the shock of everything. Ben added that there is one silver strip in all of this – that they are all safe.

“To be honest, we packed what I would grasp, our children and our dogs. This is really the only thing I would get out of the house,” he said. “At the end of the day we are alive, right?”

In total, Heely added that an estimated 40 to 50 families from the Murphy Canyon district are sold. Many of them remain in the base, while others stay in hotels paid by the navy, he added. If you can return home, Heely said that it was far too early to know.