The right time, the right place: An off-duty volunteer firefighter saves a life hanging on the edge
Dawn Baergen, left, and her husband, Daniel, pose for a photo Wednesday night.
Photo courtesy of Dawn Jackman Baergen
By the time firefighters had put out the flames, the injured driver’s overturned vehicle was a mess of blackened steel.
Only a few feet further off the road, and the driver that Daniel Baergen rescued Sunday would have slipped off the cliffside toward the waters below.
By the time the Baergens arrived to the scene, the flames were already roaring out of one side of the vehicle.
GRANT COUNTY - When Daniel Baergen, a volunteer firefighter of over 20 years with Grant County Fire District No. 6, left church Sunday morning with his wife, Dawn Baergen, they had hoped to make a quick trip to the grocery store and get back home in time for the Seahawks game.
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