Jamie Crawford To The Rescue
Early Saturday morning at approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, Pend Oreille County Dispatchers took a 911 report of 
a van that was submerged in the Pend Oreille River. When Deputy Steve Beery arrived on scene he observed the vehicle was submerged about 40 feet from shore in about 10 feet of water at the end of the boat ramp at the Ione Park. The lights of the vehicle were still glowing under the water. At this time there were several people in the water yelling that there was a lady still in the vehicle. As Deputy Beery got to the dock, an adult male, Samuel "Jamie" Crawford of Coeur d'Alene (pictured) had successfully pulled the woman from the vehicle and was swimming her to the dock. More here.
DFO: I'm posting this story because it has a tie to Huckleberries Online. Jamie Crawford, the man who pulled the woman from the submerged car and swam her to shore, is the son of Berry Picker Sam Crawford. Sam didn't learn about his son's heroics until his daughter told him that she'd read about it on her brother's Facebook page. Hats off to Junior.
