COLLINGDALE, Pa. - A Delaware County teenager was honored Monday for his brave rescue of three children who had fallen through an icy pond at a local park last month.
Anthony Alexander Jr., 16, said he was playing basketball with his friends at Collingdale Park on an unseasonably warm Tuesday afternoon when a little girl frantically ran up to him asking for help. "Yelling dramatically like ‘Can u help me!?
My friends are down at the lake are drowning, and they need help!' I’m like ‘oh snap this is real!’," Alexander Jr. told FOX 29.
Alexander called 911 and raced down to the 8-foot deep pond to save the children from the frigid water. He used a thick branch to plunk on girl from the pond and dragged a boy to safety.