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☆ Portland woman recounts rescuing baby after fallen power line kills 3
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Sara Smart | Ashley Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The good Samaritan who risked electrocution to save a baby in northeast Portland after a power line fell on top of a car and killed three people said she didn’t think twice about jumping in to help. The incident happened Wednesday morning when a branch hit the top of a vehicle, taking a power line down with it, CNN previously reported. “I was standing there and it made another, like, loud pop.”Washington, who works at a daycare, said she looked down from her window and saw a power line had fallen on a vehicle. Nothing after that.”A woman rushing to check on the baby also slipped, fell and touched the line in a similar manner, according to Washington. None of her neighbors who had fallen were moving, and she was concerned about the baby, Washington said.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it. Her neighbor’s pregnant, 21-year-old daughter was screaming for her boyfriend to get their baby away from the car. “I was concerned about the baby,” Washington said. But he told Portland television station KGW that his daughter had come over to use the internet after hers went out.

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☆ Downed Power Line Kills Three but Baby in Diapers Survives in Oregon
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Daniel Trotta(Reuters) - A downed power line electrocuted three people to death in Oregon after falling onto a vehicle on Wednesday but a baby in diapers survived after a witness retrieved the child from the scene, Portland fire officials said. A fallen tree branch brought the power line onto the top of an SUV, said Rick Graves, a spokesperson for Portland Fire and Rescue who was at the scene. Callers told dispatchers of at least one person and maybe the car on fire, victims lying prostrate, and a loose baby, Graves said. KGW television reported that a neighbor plucked the baby from the arms of one of the bodies before paramedics arrived. I have to get this baby,'" said the neighbor, who asked to remain unidentified, KGW reported.

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☆ 3 Killed in Oregon as Northwest Braces for More Freezing Rain, Ice and Snow
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | Orlando Mayorquin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Three people were killed when a power line fell on a car in Portland, Ore., Wednesday morning as parts of the Northwest continued to suffer from a brutal weather pattern this week, officials said. In one fatal episode, Rick Graves, a spokesman for Portland Fire and Rescue, said that a tree branch had knocked the power line onto an S.U.V. in Portland. The three occupants who died, two adults and a teenager, are believed to have been electrocuted when they got out of the vehicle, the spokesman said. A baby who had been in the vehicle survived, and was taken to the hospital for evaluation, he added.

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