An off-duty Greenville, S.C. police officer is being lauded for saving a wheelchair-bound woman from drowning over the weekend.
Officer Jessica Hawkins had just gotten off duty after a downtown event when she received a call on her radio about a woman in a wheelchair who had fallen off a 15 to 20-foot embankment and into the creek at McPherson Park, according to WYFF.
Hawkins, who was a block away when she heard the call, told the news station that when she got to the park she could see the woman's entire body in the water and her wheelchair upside-down.
"I climbed down the embankment and noticed that her head was partially underwater," she said. "So I just placed both of my hands behind her head and held her head until EMS and the fire department showed up."
The woman was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Hawkins, a six-year veteran of the force, she that she did what any other officer would have done.
