When a car crashed into the slough in Bow last week, a group of nearby residents sprung into action, potentially saving a life.
About 5:15 p.m. on May 8, a car driven by Maranda Biggart left the road near the corner of Bayview Edison Road and Farm to Market Road.
The car, occupied by Biggart and her two children, landed upside down in the water, feet from the home of Jake Schifferl and Elly Breckenridge-Schifferl.
The two, who happened to be in their driveway and about to leave, saw the overturned car with its wheels still spinning in the slough.
At that point, Schifferl rushed to the car, while Breckenridge-Schifferl called her father, Tony Breckenridge, then called 911.
Schifferl saw Biggart holding her infant daughter crying for help, and he took the infant so Biggart could try to rescue her toddler who was still in the back seat.
Breckenridge, a former Skagit County sheriff’s deputy who worked in search and rescue, said he arrived soon after, and helped Biggart search the back seat for her son.