Four people will be honored Tuesday for their βheroic actionsβ in the rescue of a trapped teenager in a flipped car in an irrigation canal last month.
Andrew Miles, Alexander Stewart, Alex Romero and Mark Beach will be recognized at the Marana Town Council 7 p.m. meeting for helping to save the life of Sabrina Montejano on April 3.
The Northwest Fire District and the Marana Police Department will honor the four good Samaritans with Citizen Lifesaving Awards, said Capt. Adam Goldberg, a Fire District spokesman.
Montejano, 17, was driving a car with three teenage passengers, and the car left the road and overturned along a frontage road off Interstate 10, near West Twin Peaks Road, Goldberg said.
The car landed upside down in a flowing irrigation canal, trapping Montejano underwater. Miles and Stewart came upon the crash moments later and found a group of people βstruggling to lift the overturned car above the waterline,β Goldberg said.
βAndrew and Alexander secured tow straps and chains to the overturned vehicle and used their trucks to pull the car up and out of the canal,β he said.
Romero and Beach went into the canal and βcut Sabrinaβs seat belt away to free her from the wreckage.β Goldburg said both, who had training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, took her to the road and determined that she was not breathing, and had no pulse.
The two administered CPR until paramedics arrived and took over the teenβs care before taking her to Banner β University Medical Center Tucson. When the teen arrived at the hospital, βshe was breathing on her own and attempting to speak,β Goldberg said.
The Town Council meets at the Marana Municipal Complex at 11555 W. Civic Center Drive.
