With the help of friends and neighbors, he ultimately pulled the boy from the frozen pond. Caitlyn says he initially tried to get the boy to grab a rope tied to her grandfather’s truck, but he couldn’t move his arms. He can be seen in the video Caitlyn captured shortly after calling 911, chest-deep in the icy water. But that didn’t stop him from jumping into the frigid water. He showed up minutes later dressed only in jeans and a long-sleeve t-shirt in his rush to respond.

Knowing they needed to act fast and not sure of how to describe the location to the 911 dispatcher, Caitlyn called her grandfather, Randy Thomas, who lives a block away. She says she tried banging on neighbors’ doors, but no one was answering. He was just looking at me,” Caitlyn recalled. Caitlyn says she called out to the boy, but he could not speak.

It happened in the Berea community just outside of Jefferson early Wednesday afternoon. Tennessee girl ‘doing well’ after brother died rescuing her from frozen pond, pastor says

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