OKANOGAN, Wash. -- A mother in Central Washington is making national headlines for pulling her daughter out of a horrific situation. Rose Vallee's 5-year-old daughter climbed into or was pushed into a commercial washing machine.

Somehow it got turned on, trapping the little girl inside over the weekend in Okanogan.

When Jerry Bowes entered his laundry mat in Okanogan he found chaos.

"The machine was running and water was pouring out of the hole that was made when they broke the window," Bowes said.

Somehow a 5-year-old girl had gotten into one of the larger machines in the store and that machine turned on. It started spinning and filling with water. Surprisingly that machine was out of order.

"And I haven't been able to run it since and I haven't been able to run it, just before it," says Bowes.

Bowes says he heard that the girl's mother, identified by Sheriff's Deputies as Rose Vallee, ran to her car, grabbed a tire iron and broke the machine's glass door. She then pulled out her daughter who got a large gash on her back. The girl went to the hospital and left people wondering how this could happen.

"You cant fall into them," Bowes said.

The machine that the child got into stands about 30 inches off the ground and the opening is only about a foot wide. After that the door has to be closed and the handle has to be turned before the water starts running.

Bowes says the only way to stop the machine once it started was to flip the breaker. This is a situation the says he's never witnessed before.

"I've never heard, I've never seen it and i never want to see it again," he said.

Colville Tribal Police and Child Protective Services have been contacted and they're investigating to determine exactly what happened.