SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. -- A North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper saved a woman who was tubing in the Tuckasegee River near Bryson River.
Trooper J.T. Gibbs was on US 19 when he was flagged down by someone trying to get help. The woman, Lindsey Woolard, from Wilmington was drowning in the river after she became trapped under a log jam.