Wrestling back after horrific car accident

ELDORA – Right before 8 a.m. on an October 2019 morning, EMT Director and Paramedic Maile Carter, and EMT Owen Spencer, employees at Eldora EMS, were called to a one-vehicle accident on the curves west of Steamboat Rock. When they arrived, they found a mangled car, which held two Grand View University students, passenger Jasmine “Jas” Alexander and driver Justin Portillo, who had fallen asleep at the wheel.

Alexander and Portillo were heading into Steamboat Rock to get fuel, Carter later found out, as they were on their way to help at a wrestling event in Waterloo.