Scare on the Ice

Christopher Lambert

Staff Writer

On Feb. 25, four children in Attleboro, MA, fell into a pond in front of a car dealership. Alex Heng, the father of one of the children who fell in, said he received a call from a fireman who alerted him that his son had been saved from a frozen pond.

Heng said, “I received a call about almost three o’clock from his cellphone and then the fireman spoke to me, and he said, ‘your son,’ and I started to panic, you know, I’m feeling great because God was up there, looking over them all,” according to People.

Across the street was a car dealership, where Max Castro, an employee, was working on a sale when the accident caught his eye. “I just screamed to one my coworkers, ‘call 911,’ and then we ran over there to look. Me and my clients. And forget about the sale, I don’t care about the sale, I said, ‘save the kids that’s it,'” said Castro, according to CBS News.

Along with a couple of coworkers, Castro grabbed snow brooms and they worked to get the children to safety. Attleboro town officials are now warning about warming temperatures and how they can cause accidents to happen on the ice.