Hero Lifeguards Race Toward Cries of Help and Rescue Mother and Son Drowning in a Rushing River Bordering the Pool

Screams were coming from the woods, but the three lifeguards who had just started their shift at the Ohio pool didn’t hesitate.

They sprinted away from the Pataskala Municipal Park and raced toward the screams, through the trees to the rushing river that flowed beyond.

Eighteen-year-old lifeguard Kaden Ross ran the 150 yards to the woods, hopped a fence, and made it to the river first. A woman was drowning in the murky waters of the Licking River, which had been surging after a series of summer storms.

“There’s a water hole down there, probably 12 to 15 feet deep, and I see (a woman) actively drowning,” Ross told WSYX in Columbus. “I saved the mother. I bring her to a log, and then she tells me, ‘My boy’s under there. So when she tells me this, I look in the water and I don’t see anyone.

“Another guy came and got into the water with me. As I am saving the mom, I give her to one of my guards. He sees the little boy’s feet. The only thing we can see are his little feet above the water.”

While the other lifeguards (Kaden’s sister McKenzie, and Lily Ward) attended to the mother, Kaden and the other impromptu hero worked to retrieve her 7-year-old son, who was almost completely submerged.

When the two men got him out of the water, he was unconscious and not breathing at all. Kaden used his lifeguard training to administer a couple of rescue breaths, then immediately started CPR.

The CPR forced fluid from the boy’s mouth, which is usually a positive sign in water rescues.

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Local police and first responders arrived soon afterward to continue the rescue. But it was the lifeguards who made it all possible, providing heroism without hesitation at the most critical moments.

“That creek goes on forever in those woods,” Kaden told WBNS in a followup interview. “It just happened to be in a spot where it was by a pool, where there were lifeguards that are trained to save people drowning—and we heard the screams.

“I know God put us there in the right place and the right time.”

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