Four Utah police officers are dumbfounded as to who urged them to flip a car over in an icy river and save 18-month-old Lily Groesbeck. Her mother, Lynn Jennifer, was dead.
After being called to investigate an overturned vehicle inside the Spanish Fork River, a group of officers all agree they heard a voice plead “Help me! help me!” After successfully flipping the car, the officers found a baby that had been hanging upside down just above the rushing water, and her deceased mother.
“We’re not exactly sure where that voice came from,” officer Jared Warner told Deseret News.
“It was a positive boost for every one of us because I think it pushed us to go harder a little longer. I don’t think that any one of us had intended on flipping a car over that day,” officer Tyler Beddoes said. “I think it was [officer] Dewitt who said, ’We’re trying. We’re trying our best to get in there.’ How do you explain that? I don’t know.”
Lynn Jennifer “Jenny” Groesbeck’s car went over a bridge on March 6, where it then sat upside down in the river for what authorities believe to be 14 hours. Her rescued child was taken to Primary Children’s Hospital on March 8 in critical condition but eventually upgraded to stable condition.
Firefighters who took part in the rescue were also treated for hypothermia, Deseret News reported.
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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