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Twin brothers from Alabama are being praised for theirheroicsafter saving their drowning father from a backyard pool.
Bridon and Christian Hassig, 10, and their 11-year-old friend, Sam Ebert,jumped into actionwhen they noticed their father Brad needed help while attempting underwater breathing exercises in their pool on June 14.
“He usually sits kind of like he’s meditating,” Christian toldWBRC. “I could see he was shaking a bunch and then he just laid on his side. Since I had goggles on, I could see his face was turning very light blue. I told Bridon, ‘Dad’s not okay.'”
Bridon added: “Me and Sam dove into the water and I got one shoulder and he got the other. We just dragged him to the steps.”
“I went from peace to being slammed on the deck of the pool, and then just chaos everyone was everywhere,” Brad recalled toTODAYon Wednesday. “They were first responders. I heard, ‘Daddy, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. You have to be okay.’ It was crazy.”
Brad was transported to a local hospital and released 24 hours later, according to WBRC. He told the news station that he is “very proud” of his sons and will “be grateful for the rest of my life” after they saved him.
“There’s no way, physically, they should have been able to pull a 185-pound man out of the water like that and to know and do what all of them did, perfectly as quickly (as they did),” Brad added toTODAY. “No lack of action, to run as fast as they did. It’s God’s hands all over it.”
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Yet, Bridon said he knew he needed to save his father’s life.
“I was like, I’ve had some moments with him, with happy, sad and some mad moments, but I’m like, ‘I don’t want this to be the last moment,'” he said onTODAY.
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Brad’s wife, Lori Hassig, also shared aFacebook postabout the incident last month.
“Thank you, God, for giving those 3 boys the strength to save my husband,” she wrote. “You are our heroes forever and ever.”
source: people.com
