Deputies receive recognition for life saving

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Deputies Chris Duncan, Jaime Miranda and SpenserBryan received Sheriff’s Medals for life saving efforts at a ceremony heldFriday in Marathon.

Deputies Jaime Miranda and Spenser Bryan
with Sheriff Rick Ramsay.

Deputy Duncan received his medal after repeatedlydiving into the water in an attempt to save a child who he’d been told wastrapped in a submerged car. The mother, who was injured and confused, thoughther child was in the car at the time; it was later discovered the child was,thankfully, not in the car and was safe at home.
Deputies Bryan and Miranda stopped a man armed with a knife from killing himself; the tense and distraught man was disarmed without injury to himself or to the officers on the scene. 

Sheriff Rick Ramsay and Captain Penny Phelps congratulate
Deputy Chris Duncan.