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Father and officer form a human chain to rescue a boy from the icy Wisconsin River
A father and a police officer formed a human chain to rescue an 8-year-old boy who fell into a frozen river in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on December 27. Police said four young children were playing near the edge of Phoenix Park at the confluence of the Chippewa and Eau Claire rivers when one of the children went to pick up trash and fell through the ice. Another boy in the group tried to rescue him but fell through the ice and made his way back to shore, where the other boys called out. This video shows the boy’s father arriving on the scene at the same time as Officer Jason Kaveney, police wrote on Facebook. It shows the officer forming a chain with the father to reach the child, before the father falls through the ice. Officer Kaveney restrains the man, who restrains his son, while a passerby grabs the officer’s legs. Two more officers, Officers Ryan Prock and Tyler Stephens, arrived at the scene and helped them back to shore. The boy and his father were taken to safety and were fine after the incident, police said. “This heroic save was made possible by a determined father driven by the love and selfless actions of a faithful guardian of the community,” police wrote on Facebook. Credit: Eau Claire Police Department via Storyful
