When Bernita Flowers brought her family to the Detroit riverfront, expecting to watch the mail boat come and go on a July evening, she wasn’t expecting to see a man fall from the Ambassador Bridge — nor expecting her family to play a critical role in his rescue.
Bystanders and the crew of the boat who rescued a Canadian man from the Detroit River were honoured in a ceremony on Friday.
Flowers and her family, Terri George and Tionne George, and the crew of the J.W. Westcott mail boat, were awarded the Captain David P. Dobbins award for excellence in search and rescue from the
“Nice work!”