Police, first responders, and firefighters received a call that there was an overturned car submerged in a freezing Utah river.
At first, they weren’t sure if the vehicle had been there for many days, if it was abandoned, or if it had crashed.
When they were near the location, they heard an adult woman’s voice calling out to them.
“Help us, help us”.
This prompted the officers to rush to the vehicle.
“We’re trying. We’re going inside the car to get to you,” Officer Tyler Beddoes remembered hearing one of his comrades, possibly Dewitt, reassure the woman.
They had to act fast.
All of them tried their best to flip the vehicle and save the people inside.
However, when all four rescuers flipped the vehicle, they were all shocked by what they saw.
The woman wasn’t there.
No one inside the vehicle was capable of speaking, let alone screaming, for help.
So, who was the woman asking for help?
They didn’t have time to ponder about this since they saw something more important.
There was a toddler inside.
Toddler Lily Groesbeck was unconscious in the back, strapped in her car seat.
In the driver’s seat, they saw the lifeless body of Lily’s mother, Jennifer Groesbeck.
Jennifer Groesbeck, 25, was on her way home to Springville.
The mother and daughter came from Salem, where the two visited Jennifer’s parents.
Investigators believed that the car vaulted off and went over the curb.
Then it had traveled around 30 – 50 feet before the car crashed into the cement barrier and into the freezing river.
Jennifer died on impact.
The impact was so strong that Jennifer was killed at about 10:30 p.m.
The location of the crash made it hard for anyone to spot it from the street above.
14 hours passed.
Fourteen hours later, a fisherman saw the car at around 12:30 p.m. He called the police and that was when the responders came.
“We were down on the car and a distinct voice says, ‘Help me, help me,’” Bryan Dewitt told Deseret.
It wasn’t just Dewitt who heard it.
Even Officer Tyler Beddoes heard it too. That is why they all rushed to the vehicle.
“It wasn’t just something that was just in our heads. To me it was plain as day cause I remember hearing a voice,” officer Tyler Beddoes said.
They took the unconscious child, and the officer ran to the ambulance.
He also tapped the toddler’s back, and another officer gave her infant CPR.
Lily was quickly taken to the hospital in Salt Lake City where she received the necessary care.
They were determined to save her.
Four days later, Lily was giggling, happily playing with her father.
Jennifer’s loved ones mourned her death but were also thankful for the miracle that happened.
All the officers who first responded to the scene and those who had heard the mysterious voice couldn’t explain what they had encountered.
They had one word to describe it.
For them, it was a miracle.
Today, Lily is a beautiful young girl who looks just like her mother.
See the bodycam footage from one of the officers who responded that day and helped save Lilly below!
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