An Oregon teen saw 3 people die after they slid on ice into a power line. Then she went to help

By Claire Rush and Gene Johnson | The Associated Press Majiah Washington (AP/Jenny Kane) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it. Her neighbor’s pregnant, 21-year-old daughter was screaming for her boyfriend to get their baby away from the car. He scrambled up the icy driveway carrying the child, but before he made it halfway, he slid backward and his foot touched the live wire — “a little fire, then smoke,” Washington said. The mother, six months pregnant, tried to reach the baby, but she too slipped and was electrocuted — as was her 15-year-old brother when he came out to help. Washington, 18, was on the phone with a dispatcher when she saw the baby, lying on top of his father, move his head — the 9-month-old was alive. Having just seen three people shocked to death, she decided to try to save the boy. She kept a low crouch to avoid sliding into the wire as she approached, she said at a news conference Thursday,...