Politician rescues woman pinned under fridge 4 days
Published: November 16, 2006
In political season, voters grow weary of campaign ads and candidates’ knocks at the door.
But Inge Walen may owe her life to Gray Allen’s campaign for a seat on the Placer County, Calif., Water Agency board.
Walen, 72, of Roseville’s Sun City retirement community, had been pinned under her refrigerator for four days, she says, when Allen stopped at her door on Sept. 24.
”I heard this faint cry of help and this thumping,” he said. With a neighbor’s help, he found an open back door.
”I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Allen said. ”She’s obviously a tough, willful lady.”
Walen, who had fallen in and out of consciousness, was trapped up to her thighs under the fallen fridge, her back cut by broken glass.
She’s not sure but thinks the fridge was unbalanced by a top-heavy freezer. It toppled over on her.
”I was thinking all the time, ‘How do I get myself out of this pickle?’” she said.
She threw a bag of frozen peas at a window but failed to break the glass. She stretched to reach a drawer and got an eggbeater to toss at the window. It bounced off and turned on the faucet; the sound of water was torturous as she grew parched. Meanwhile, friends and family called, leaving messages she couldn’t answer.
Allen, 69, rescued her, and went on to win his election last week. He got Walen’s vote.
”Whenever someone saves your life, you got to pay them back somehow,” said Walen, recovering at a nursing home.
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