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Shes happy her son acted so quickly to pull his friend out of the canal right here. Detectives are still working the scene at the moment. Now, heres some video of the area from sky 6. Detectives tell us the 8yearold boy goes to riverside elementary and cutting behind houses and through the canal to get home. This all happened around 3 30. The deputies say the boy and his friends were playing on a pipe that stretches across the canal when the boy fell off into 3footdeep water and his friend helped pull him out. Someone called me and said my son, they thought he was the one that was drowning. But they said, no, he was the one that saved him because he was one of the ones that jumped in. Hes the only one who knew how to swim. Reporter now when we got here, we saw deputies interviewing two young boys who were there when it happened. One neighbor tells us he heard children screaming from behind out. Deputies are still unsure how the boys got back there. And is county property. At last check

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