In a video captured by security cameras from a house in Kansas, United States, you can see the scenes of a man who saved the life of a four-year-old boy with autism from drowning in a community pool.
Maddox Westehouse, the man’s daughter, was the one who saw how Xavier Rigenu, the boy’s name, went through the fence and fell into the pool. At that time, she told her father Tom, who, as a heroic act, jumped the fence to save the infant.
According to local media, the boy managed to be a little more than three minutes in the water, so when Tom Westehouse pulled him out of the pool he had to give him CPR for another three minutes until he reacted.
Tom indicated that it was possible for him to perform these maneuvers thanks to the fact that in past years he had taken a CPR course in order to be prepared for eventual emergencies.
As for the minor’s parents, the mother was inside the house taking care of her other four-month-old son.
The family of the rescued child expressed their gratitude to Tom and his daughter for realizing what happened and saving the child’s life.
Likewise, by his actions, Tom and Maddox Westerhouse got an award from the fire department and the Lawrence Police Department (state of Kansas).
A similar event occurred weeks ago, when the Australian television journalist and meteorologist, Paul Burt, at night, evoked with his actions Clark Kent (Superman, a historical character from the comics)by divesting himself of his communicator role to help his community.
In the middle of a news broadcast for a local television channel, known as 7News, and preparing to receive the transfer from the studio, Burt decided to put aside his microphone and camera to join a group of people trying to help a child in danger.
This is how Burt went into the sea to help a ten-year-old boy, who, according to international media, “was struggling to stay afloat”.
The beach where the laudable event occurred is known as Surfers Paradise, and the child at risk is a member of a Pakistani family that was in the area, according to international media such as The New York Post.
After participating in the rescue act, this real life ‘Clark Kent’ returned to the beach and, still with his clothes and hair soaked, he resumed the microphone to receive the change from the studio, moment in which he took the opportunity to explain what happened.
According to Burt, As he was preparing for his report, he noticed that the ten-year-old boy was being swept away by the strong ocean current.which had prevented the minor from retaking the shore and was being dragged further and further out to sea, being trapped in a kind of ditch, where the water became deeper.
In his balance, the reporter affirmed, satisfied with his action, and while pointing to the scene behind him where the emergency services were treating the minor, that the child “is alive, breathing and conscious”, adding that the minor had ingested a little of seawater, and now the paramedics who came to the beach in an ambulance were doing their job to stabilize him.
However, in statements by the same reporter taken up by the newspaper Daily Mail of the United Kingdom, he explained that went to help the young man when he heard his parents desperately looking for him, admitting that at times they had thought they had lost it. Burt said he feels a lot of empathy for the distraught parents, because he has a son who is regarding the same age.
