The High Timber Times ran the story of how Elk Creek Fire Department Lieutenant Mark Becker and JeffCo Sheriffs Deputy Wade Fleckstiener were able to save the life of Mr. Scott Prestwood.
I was there when the three of them met to talk about their encounter. Deputy Fleckstiener asked Mr. Prestwood if he'd seen the bright light (as is so often reported), he says no, but that he did wake with a haunting image, something he brought back from that place between life and death. Scott recalls lying on his back. His father, Louis Marion Prestwood Jr., a retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel (who passed away in 2008), is kneeling over him. Scott says he senses others standing in a circle behind his father, looking on, but he can’t make out their faces. They're blurry, like a person seen behind a pane of frosted glass, but he knows they are focusing on him. The senior Mr. Prestwood is angry; he is scolding his son, “Just relax! Stop fighting! Don’t be a know it all, they’re going to save you if you’ll just let them!” And Scott Prestwood always the obedient son, listens to his father; he stops fighting and allows himself to be saved.
I will never forget the chill that passed through my spine as he told his story.
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