fucking a ! either we go up together or we go down together :)
Inmates on work crew save 3 boys from frigid
Washington river
Published February 01, 2013
FoxNews.com
Nelson
Pettis, Larry Bohn and Jon Fowler speak to KPTV. (kptv)
Rescue officials say a group of
inmates on a prison work crew dove into a fast-moving, frigid Washington state
river to save three young brothers who were dumped in the water after their
canoe capsized.
KPTV reports the inmate crew from
Larch Corrections Center was finishing their work for the day near the river
when they heard the children's screams.
"We just thought it was some
kids screaming until we seen their two heads bobbing in the water with the
canoe upside down," Nelson Pettis, a member of the crew told KPTV.
"They were coming down over flooded Salmon Creek. It was raging pretty
fast."
The three brothers, aged 8, 10 and
16, had lost control of their boat in the strong current. Pettis says he and
another inmate Larry Bohn jumped into the river.
"I just let the current take me
down until I could get to a spot where my feet hit ground and I tried to stay
put. They actually came to me right there," Pettis told KPTV. "Right
then, the current swept me from underneath my feet and I grabbed onto the kids
and got them to a little island in the middle of the river."
Bohn helped the 16-year-old to shore
and then helped Pettis and the two younger boys get onto a pile of floating
debris in the creek until they could be rescued. Another inmate, Jon
Fowler, helped the rescue crew carry the boys to shore.
"They were really scared,"
Bohn told KPTV. "They kept telling us 'thank you, thank you' all over
again."
Clark County Fire District 6 Chief
Jerry Green says the three boys and two inmates were taken to nearby hospitals
with mild hypothermia.
"I think we did something that
any good person would do. You see three helpless kids in a river, you help.
That's what you do," Fowler told KPTV.
"Just cause we're incarcerated,
doesn't mean we're bad people, " he later added. "We made some bad
choices in our lives, but we're still, we're just like everybody else. We're
just paying our debt for what we did wrong."
Prison staff tells KPTV the members
of the work crew are serving sentences for non-violent crimes.
The Associated Press contributed to
this report.
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