Sheriff Nicholson said actions prevented tragedy
Gilmer County Deputy Blake Heptinstall (left) and Corporal Clayton Hughes (right) were honored by Gilmer County Sheriff Stacy Nicholson for their heroics actions in helping save a man whose side-by-side overturned in a swollen creek last March.
It was March. It was cold. A man was trapped in his side-by-side which was upside down in a creek.
Two Gilmer County deputies, Blake Heptinstall and Corporal Clayton Hughes, jumped into t...

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