Four-month-old baby swept away by tornado in US found alive in tree

The state of Tennessee, in the southeastern United States, has been hit in the last week by strong tornadoes that have left behind a trail of destruction and death. At least six people have died, including a mother and her young son, US media such as CNN report.. However, in the midst of the chaos the unexpected has arisen: a four-month-old baby has been found alive in a tree after having disappeared after being blown away by hurricane-force winds.

It was a week ago when a powerful tornado ripped off the roof of the mobile home where Sydney Moore lived with her boyfriend, Aramis Youngblood, and their two children, Princeton and Lord, aged one year and four months, respectively.

The youngest was sleeping in a carrycot when he was swept away by a whirlwind of wind and debris.. “The tip of the tornado came down and took the bassinet with my baby, Lord, inside,” Sydney Moore told local station WSMV-TV.

Her boyfriend and the child's father then tried to grab the crib, but was also swept away by the tornado.. In turn, Moore grabbed her other one-year-old son, Princeton, to try to protect him as the walls of the home collapsed around him.

“I couldn't breathe,” Moore recalled, saying that both she and her eldest son were crushed by the rubble of their house, although they managed to emerge from under the wreckage unharmed.

After what happened, Moore was convinced that her young son, Lord, had died.. “I was pretty sure he was dead and we weren't going to find him,” she said.. However, after ten agonizing minutes of searching in the rain, the father found the baby crying on a fallen tree a few meters from the place where his house used to be.

“It was like a scene from a movie,” Moore recalled, recounting how she saw her boyfriend “walking in the pouring rain, with his clothes torn and with Lord in his arms.”. His sister, Caitlyn Moore, has started a campaign through the Gofundme website to try to raise money to help her family, who has “lost everything” after the devastating tornadoes.