SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – Four Spokane Valley high school students, and two hotel employees received the Spokane Valley Fire Department Lifesaving Award Monday afternoon. The six were recognized after helping save a man found unconscious in a hotel pool.
The rescue happened on April 18. Patrick Erickson of SVFD says it took place at the pool of the Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center. It was there that Rae Overby, one of the teens said she saw the man lying still in the deep end.
“Luckily, I was able to realize someone was down at the bottom of the pool, not conscious,” Overby told NonStop Local at the award ceremony. “So I dived down in.”…