"I lay down on my stomach and just started digging into the ice with my fingers to claw my way out. It felt like eternity with her screaming,” Chief Mike Foligno said.
Trooper Connor Wager responded Thursday to a report of a rollover crash and found a car on its roof in the freezing river water with the front end submerged and the driver trapped inside.
"She had just gotten off work and fell asleep," police Lt. Dave Bair said. "I believe she lives in Sebring. Her car was almost full of water when the officers pulled her out of the river."
Officers with the National City (CA) Police Department dove into San Diego Bay to rescue a man who appeared to be drowning after being thrown from his personal watercraft vehicle on Monday afternoon.
Both officers crouching over the girl and tapped her back as she lay on her side near the pool, her appendages turning darker shades of purple.
Officers with the Aberdeen Police Department rescued a woman from rushing rapids in a river on Sunday morning.
SWAT officers with the Chicago Police Department worked with firefighters and personnel from the marine unit to rescue an individual who had fallen into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan.
Officers with the marine unit for the Darien (CT) Police Department raced to the rescue of a young man whose kayak had capsized.
A New Jersey State Trooper on a family vacation in Florida performed life-saving CPR on a 7-year-old girl who was found face down in a swimming pool.
A young man saw an officer about to jump into an indoor pool to save a woman from drowning and bravely jumped in to assist in the effort.