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It was a rainy Wednesday afternoon, not unusual for September, and Rick Tower of Yreka, California, was on his way home, hauling a load of wood chips east on Highway 96 near Horse Creek. Suddenly a westbound Lincoln Towncar fish-tailed on the wet, slick pavement and, for a few heart-stopping seconds, became airborne before it plunged into the swift current of the Klamath River.

Tower pulled his Earl Bryant rig over to the side of the highway and stopped as quickly as possible. He leaped out of the cab, and started running across the highway to the river, yelling to the man who’d pulled over in his pickup behind the eighteen-wheeler to call for help.

Tower scrambled down to the river as the heavy car, pushed by the rain-swollen river, slowly turned in the current and then started moving downstream, picking up speed.He could hear screams for help, so Tower jumped into the river and swam to the car. Inside, Dorothy Knudsen, eighty-two years old...

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