PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Papillion police officer has received an award from the American Red Cross after saving a man from a fiery car accident.
Officer Jobi Drefs, 45, was honored Wednesday as the recipient of the American Red Cross Public Servant Hero award.
Drefs was driving on Nebraska Highway 36 in Bennington on June 17 when she noticed a wreck and encountered an overturned, burning garbage truck over a hill crest.
Bennington Police Sgt. Tim Pittman and two civilians were trying to free 21-year-old Blaine Rageth, who was trapped inside. The four were able to pull Rageth from a broken window.
Drefs also won Papillion Police Department’s 2015 Officer of the Year Award, Lifesaving Award and Medal of Valor in February.