As they drove through dense fog, sheriffs knew somewhere nearby a woman was trapped, water rising from her chest to her neck, desperation breaking in her voice as she spoke to 911 dispatchers who were still scrambling to figure out in which ravine her overturned car was slowly sinking.
Eventually, from one of the 13 patrol vehicles, the upturned back end of her car could be seen protruding from the water and filth of a ditch. One of the deputies waded out to her, keeping her calm as she breathed from a shrinking pocket of air until the dive team finally pulled her from the thick mud.
