A woman and a teenage boy jumped into an icy pond in Denver to save three children who fell through the ice. This past weekend, four children aged four to eleven were playing on an iced over pond in the middle of an apartment complex in a Denver suburb when the ice gave way and three of them fell into the frigid water.
Dusti Talavera, 23, happened to be looking out her window to see the children in distress. So, she rushed outside, jumped into the pond and pulled two of the children out of the water, a four-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy. But Talavera couldn’t get the six-year-old girl out of the water. That’s when the 16-year-old relative of the girl jumped in the water and pulled her out. Moments later, first responders arrived and performed CPR on the girl, who wasn’t breathing. They were eventually able to get her breathing on her own and she was transported to Children's Hospital Colorado where she was listed in “stable” condition. Later she was transferred to Denver Health where her condition was downgraded to “serious,” but she is expected to survive.
First responders praised Talavera’s heroic response. “I have four boys. What she did was amazing,” says South Metro Fire Rescue officer Cory Sudden. “I hope if this happened to one of mine, somebody like her was close by.” Talavera says she wasn’t concerned for her own safety, only the children’s. “Nobody was really outside, so I mean, it was me. I just knew it was me that had to do it,” she says.
Source:The Denver Channel