The Placer County Sheriff's Department did something today they've only done twice before.
According to a Facebook post, the Placer County Sheriff's Honors and Awards program, awarded a group of citizens with Medals of Merit for their selfless and heroic actions after a car went off the road and into a raging creek in Auburn on Jan. 8, 2017.
The five men rescued a 12-year-old girl who was stuck in a car. The vehicle slid off the road and ended upside-down submerged in a creek. Before any of the men could begin processing what happened, they all jumped in to help.
Earlier this year, ABC10's Francis Wang spoke with three of the five men. None of the men knew each other prior to that fateful day.