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Harry Button thought he was a goner when he hit the bottom of the frigid Spokane River. But he surfaced moments later to become a Post Falls Police Department legend and to narrate a Super Bowl commercial about his narrow escape. Tragically, the volunteer fire dispatcher who rode with him that night wasn’t as lucky. The episode began as a routine call March 27, 1971. Shortly before midnight that freezing Saturday, Officer Button and ride-along passenger Allen Chaffin, 29, of Post Falls, responded to a car crash on the Spokane Street bridge.