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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Two deputies with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office were honored astatine an grant ceremonial aft redeeming a woman's life.
Victoria Short is fortunate to beryllium live aft 2 deputies with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office saved her from a car clang past summer.
"I was fortunate capable to past and that wouldn't person happened if it hadn't been for them... they genuinely were heroes that day," Short said.
Deputies Ronald Wells and Timothy Chang received an iPhone notification that a clang was detected connected Highway 180 and 245.
They accidental astatine first, determination was nary motion of the crash.
"There's a precise steep cliff connected 1 side, and we didn't spot thing connected the road. So we started to presume the worst," Wells said.
"It conscionable didn't consciousness right. And truthful I parked my car, got retired connected the roadway and really walked it," Chang said.
Thats when Chang recovered ungraded kicked onto the roadway.
"I looked down, I heard euphony down the hill, I heard music. I saw a wide achromatic spot which ended up being the car," Chang said.
Deputy Wells utilizing a drone, recovered Short, warring for her life.
"If we conscionable didn't spell that little, instrumentality that other step, who knows what could person happened," Wells said.
Wells and Chang received the "Official Commendation Achievement" Award for their heroic effort to prevention Short's beingness and didn't expect to spot her astatine the ceremony.
"It's ever bully to spot the effect of your enactment and to person a affirmative outcome," Chang said.
"It genuinely was similar a occurrence that they were adjacent capable to find it," Short said.
