“I don’t think that [the 911 operator] could hear me. I couldn’t hear them. The best I could do was scream into the phone we needed help, there were kids drowning,” she said. She laid on her stomach on the pier and reached for the children, all younger than 15, who were overpowered by rip currents while swimming in the lake. Dewitt grabbed hold of the children. When she was pulling them out of the water, the waves would strike the children and push them back in, she said. “This part will stick with me forever. This girl looked at me and said, ‘I’m going to die.’ It makes me cry every time I think about it,” Dewitt said,