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Published on: 3/23/2007
Last Visited: 3/23/2007
Deputy Joseph Williamson received the Lifesaving Medal for using his personal four-wheel-drive truck to rescue an 8-year-old girl and her parents during the torrential rains on Aug. 1, 2006.The girl, who was on dialysis, and her family, were trapped in a trailer on Chicken Farm Road as fast-rising water flooded nearby roadways.
Williamson said he was glad to be honored but thinks all sheriff's office employees who helped during the storms last summer were just as worthy of the recognition.
"In my heart everyone was a hero,"
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Williamson said.