Tragedy was averted at the Wenatchee River near Leavenworth, Washington, when two off-duty law enforcement officers saved a child from being swept away by the current.
The two men, Kent Police Detective Gilcrist and King County Sheriff’s Deputy Johnson, were vacationing with their families near the river on Sunday, Aug. 2, when they spotted a 5-year-old boy “floating down the river by himself and in a panic,” the Kent Police Department stated in a Facebook post last week.
