Wayne and Lindy Baker, along with their 9-year-old son Branson, were headed to Dickson, Oklahoma, just north of Marietta, to seek shelter, when a tornado suddenly picked up their truck and tossed it.

In the town of Dickson, the Baker family was caught up in the severe weather on Saturday, including parents Marvin Wayne Baker and Lindy Baker and their 9-year-old son Branson. Branson is now being credited for helping to save his parents after the tornado picked up their truck and tossed it into a pile of trees.

Wayne and Lindy Baker were left badly hurt after the truck they were traveling in with their son Branson in Marietta, Okla., was swept up by a EF-4 tornado and tossed into a pile of trees on April 27

Wayne and Lindy Baker, along with their 9-year-old son, Branson Baker, found themselves in the midst of an EF4 tornado as they drove toward a friend’s storm shelter Saturday in Dickson. Suddenly, the tornado picked up the family’s truck and tossed it into a pile of trees.