Two boys, ages 8 and 12, saved another teenage boy from drowning in Michigan last June after seeing him underwater in a swimming pool in front of several witnesses.
“I saw him at the bottom of the pool and I didn’t know if he was playing or something. “So I told Weston to come over to the edge of the pool and jump in to see if he was okay,” 12-year-old Noah Roche said in an interview with ABC News. I thought it was the right thing, I didn’t want to let anyone die.
In video captured by surveillance cameras, 7-year-old Griffin Emerson can be seen gently floating from the pool’s edge into the deeper room, struggling to keep his head above the water.
@abcnews Two Michigan boys are being hailed as heroes for saving another boy from drowning in a swimming pool. Noah Roche, 12, and his brother Weston Woods, 8, were at an apartment’s swimming pool when they noticed 7-year-old Griffin Emerson struggling to keep his head above water. Then they got active and helped save the seven-year-old from drowning. #news #abcnews #michigan #swimmingpool #rescue ♬ Original sound – ABC News
Just under a minute later, the two youths noticed the boy at the bottom of the water and decided to intervene immediately. Young Weston Woods, 8, would then have thrown himself into the water and brought the little one to the surface before an adult helped him get him out of the pool.
The mother of the drowned young man would then have started CPR on her son, who would have spat out the water from the swimming pool, before being taken to a hospital.
“I was scared, I thought I was going to drown. “I felt a bit strange,” the little boy, who owes his life to his two comrades, told the American media. I spat out water and voila!
According to Delaware Online, the Genesse County Sheriff’s Office held a ceremony to congratulate the two heroes.
“Weston and Noah hold a special place in my heart. And they practically saved Griffin Emerson. Many of my heroes don’t wear cloaks. And you’re two of them,” said the victim’s grandfather, Tom Kinczkowski.