the water lowering their body temperatures so much they can barely move. hypothermia is setting in. anything less than 100% rescue for five children is a tragedy. it s a complete tragedy. if you don t do your job to the best that you were trained with no hesitation, a child will die. as fisher, la mancha, and mcnamara approach for the rescue, they lay on their stomachs to distribute their weight. at that point, the children were excited and they had grabbed on to us, and slowly the ice broke and we slid into the water with them. the kids go into a frenzy. one of them is so scared, she dumps a policeman into the chilling waters. tethered to the rescue ropes onshore, the officers are able to recover and boost three of the children onto the raft. we were kind of running out of room inside the raft. the two kids still in the water, joanna morales and her
brother rafael, let go of the ice and start drifting away. you could see it in their faces. i started to lose one of them. la mancha quickly grabs the girl, joanna, leaving rafael for the moment. at that point i heard him say, i m going to give up, and at that point, he kind of pushed off. and i reached in, and thank god i was close enough to reach him, and i grabbed him by his vest. i feel bad about it later. i m happy i did it at the time. i yelled at him and told him to hold onto this raft, you re coming in next. and it worked. he got scared of me a little bit and held on to the raft. with two kids still in the water and nobody on steady ground, reinforcements arrive. firefighters, including lieutenant greg piccone, make it across the ice to help. i was really close enough to see their eyes, and they were in panic. they were almost listless at that stage. lieutenant piccone crawls across the ice, trying to disperse his weight. i reach the kids.
onshore, the officers are able to recover and boost three of the children onto the raft. we were kind of running out of room inside the raft. the two kids still in the water, joanna morales and her brother rafael, let go of the ice and start drifting away. you could see it in their faces. i started to lose one of them. la mancha quickly grabs the girl, joanna, leaving rafael for the moment. at that point i heard him say, i m going to give up, and at that point, he kind of pushed off. and i reached in, and thank god i was close enough to reach him, and i grabbed him by his vest. i feel bad about it later. i m happy i did it at the time. i yelled at him and told him to hold onto this raft, you re coming in next. and it worked. he got scared of me a little bit and held onto the raft. with two kids still in the water and nobody on steady ground, reinforcements arrive. firefighters, including lieutenant greg piccone, make it across the ice to help.
onshore, the officers are able to recover and boost three of the children onto the raft. we were kind of running out of room inside the raft. the two kids still in the water, joanna morales and her brother rafael, let go of the ice and start drifting away. you could see it in their faces. i started to lose one of them. la mancha quickly grabs the girl, joanna, leaving rafael for the moment. at that point i heard him say, i m going to give up, and at that point, he kind of pushed off. and i reached in, and thank god i was close enough to reach him, and i grabbed him by his vest. i feel bad about it later. i m happy i did it at the time. i yelled at him and told him to hold onto this raft, you re coming in next. and it worked. he got scared of me a little bit and held onto the raft. with two kids still in the water and nobody on steady ground, reinforcements arrive. firefighters, including lieutenant greg piccone, make it across the ice to help. i was really close enough to
we were kind of running out of room inside the raft. the two kids still in the water, joanna morales and her brother rafael, let go of the ice and start drifting away. you could see it in their faces. i started to lose one of them. la mancha quickly grabs the girl, joanna, leaving rafael for the moment. at that point i heard him say, i m going to give up, and at that point, he kind of pushed off. and i reached in, and thank god i was close enough to reach him, and i grabbed him by his vest. i feel bad about it later. i m happy i did it at the time. i yelled at him and told him to hold onto this raft, you re coming in next. and it worked. he got scared of me a little bit and held onto the raft. with two kids still in the water and nobody on steady ground, reinforcements arrive. firefighters, including lieutenant greg piccone, make it across the ice to help.