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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

There has been

an amazing story in the local news.   A sad, but also miraculous, one.

A 25 year old mother was driving with her 18 month old daughter on Saturday night and crashed into the river in Spanish Fork.  Someone from a home heard a crash noise, but when he looked he could not see anything.  No one knew about it until the next day when a fisherman saw the car submerged in the river.  He called 911 when he saw a body in the car.

When the paramedics arrived and were trying to reach the car, all 4 of them heard a woman's voice saying "help me."   One of them even responded and said that that they were doing everything they could to get to her.  What they found, when they were able to get into the car, was the 18 month old girl upside down, still in her car seat, and barely alive.  The mother had obviously died on impact.  
They know that the child had been upside down in the wrecked car for 14 hours.  Several of the paramedics that rescued her had to be treated for hypothermia, so it was not a warm night.    She was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition, but is now doing very well.

Here is a clip from the newspaper article:

Four police officers at the scene all said they heard an unmistakable voice coming from the car, saying “Help me.” They pushed the upside down car onto its side and discovered Groesbeck deceased inside and Lily unconscious.
Officer Tyler Beddoes said the voice "was a positive boost for every one of us because I think it pushed us to go harder a little longer."
The baby’s eyes fluttered open briefly, one officer recalled, giving the group hope they would be able to save her. They rushed her into an ambulance and performed CPR while she was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Three of the officers and four firefighters who were in the river were later hospitalized Saturday for hypothermia. Johnson said they were “showing signs of delusion and being disoriented” but responded well to treatment and were released that afternoon.

There are a couple of miracles here.  The first is that she survived for 14 hours before she was found.  And the second was that all of the paramedics heard the voice saying "help me," though there was no one in the car that could have said it.   I love hearing faith promoting stories like this, because it reminds me that we are never alone.  That there are others, not of this realm, who are watching and caring.