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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Sunday, December 20, 2020
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J. (AP) - A group of teenage boys is being credited for saving two young children from an icy pond they plunged into while sledding last week in New Jersey.
Stephanie Irlbeck and Rich Heid told reporters that they were at Beacon Hill Country Club in Atlantic Highlands on Thursday watching 8-year-old Olivia and 4-year-old R.J. go down the hill on an inflatable sled.
They said the youngsters hit a patch of ice and careened off course, then plummeted through the ice. Irlbeck said she started screaming and five teenage boys apparently heard her and ran over. One jumped in and the rest formed a human chain to bring the kids safely to shore.
N.J. teens rescue kids from icy pond after sledding crash
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
Olivia, 8, and RJ, 4, were saved from an icy pond while sledding on Thursday, thanks to a nearby group of teenage boys.Provided by Stephanie Irlbeck
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Stephanie Irlbeck’s two young kids had never been sledding before Thursday. Their first time was a slightly traumatic experience.
Olivia, 8, and RJ, 4, hit a patch of ice and skidded into a frozen pond. They broke the ice and plunged into the bitterly cold water.
But thanks to the quick thinking and bravery of some nearby Middletown teenage boys, the two kids were pulled out of the freezing water and safely brought onto land. The incident was first reported by Patch.
A group of five teenagers has been credited with rescuing two young children from an icy pond during a sledding incident last week in Monmouth County.
In a Dec. 17 post to a public Middletown Facebook group, Stephanie Irlbeck thanked the teens for their quick actions in pulling her children, ages 4 and 8, to safety after a mishap at the Beacon Hill Country Club in Atlantic Highlands.
The teens, Kieran Foley, Joseph Dietrich, Drew Scalice, Ryan Day and Tyler Armagan, are all freshmen at Middletown High School North, as first reported by Patch.
“There was zero hesitation on the boys’ part,” Irlbeck said in a phone interview with New Jersey 101.5. “There was not a thought of ‘oh my cell phone is going to get wet, my backpack is going to get lost, my new headphones are going to get ruined’ they all just jumped in.”