Teenager recalls harrowing ordeal after he rescues 83-year-old man and his dog from icy Iowa lake

A highschool pupil actually jumped into motion and saved the lifetime of an aged man and his canine who had been trapped in a automobile that had fallen into an icy lake. 

Joseph Salmon, 17, was ice-fishing along with his mother on East Okoboji Lake in Iowa when he noticed a Jeep, pushed by 83-year-old Thomas Lee, fall by the ice and into the water. Lee was reportedly on his solution to his son-in-law’s fishing shack when the accident befell. 

Salmon mentioned as quickly as he noticed the automobile fall by, he instantly ran over to assist. 

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“As I used to be operating, I referred to as 911 [and] ran over there. And for a second, we simply… I used to be standing on the shoreline, and one other man got here down, and we had been like waving at him like attempting to inform him, get out, get out of the Jeep,” he defined Monday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “And he was form of in shock, did not actually know what to do. He simply form of sitting there.”

“As we had been waving, extra individuals got here down and one of many guys mentioned, ‘There is a baby within the Jeep.’ And as quickly as somebody mentioned there was a baby, I obtained all the things I wanted off my first layer and I jumped into the water, obtained to the Jeep, tried opening the again door, which it was locked. It could not open, and I broke the again window.”

The highschool athlete added that he used a knife to interrupt the again window and tried getting Lee out, however the man’s foot was caught between the middle console and the seat. 

Lee was heading to his son-in-law’s fishing shack when his automobile fell by the ice.

“So I went all the way in which into the Jeep, into the entrance of it, pulled his leg out, pushed on the underside of it to push him up. And I crawled again out, to have extra room for him to return. And as he was coming between the seat and the roof of the Jeep… It is a very- it isn’t a really massive hole. And he could not get by that,” Salmon advised host Tucker Carlson. 

“So I went again within the Jeep. I pushed him again in the direction of the entrance and pushed him up. So on a jeep again seat, there’s like a lever on high of it. I pulled the seat down. So I pushed them again. I flipped the seat down and grabbed by beneath his shoulders and began pulling them out.”

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Corey McConnell, 30; Kody Harrelson, 26; Cody Chester, 27; and Chris Parks, 27; additionally helped pull the person and canine to security, based on the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Workplace. (There was no baby.)

Lee was taken to Lakes Regional Healthcare. 

Lee was transported to Lakes Regional Healthcare, however neither he nor his canine, Cooper, had been injured, The Des Moines Register reported. 

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Salmon was handled for minor cuts from the damaged glass.