SPRING CREEK — Quick thinking and a random turn of events saved two children at the Spring Creek Marina on Friday afternoon when they fell through the ice dozens of yards away from the shoreline.
The children, believed to be as young as 8 and 12 years old, were spotted by a group of young adults playing Pokemon Go at the marina.
Jarett Carver, 21, Sequioa Passmore, 21, and William Pike, 21, had stopped at a bench swing along the walking path around the marina when they noticed the children playing on the ice about 40 to 50 feet to the right of island in the middle of the marina.
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Passmore said she saw the children playing on the ice and expressed concerns to her friends.
Then they watched as one child, then the other, fell in through the ice.
“It was terrifying,” Pike recalled. “We saw one of them drop. We screamed out that they dropped. The other one went close to him and dropped straight away.”
At that moment, Carver raced toward the children as Passmore called 911 for help.
“I didn’t give it a second thought. I just went for them,” Carver told the Elko Daily Free Press.
Pike saw Carver take off his jacket and throw it to one of the children to pull them out of the water. But as they pulled on it, the sleeve tore and he pulled out one child with his hands.
Then Carver himself fell through the ice, climbed out and pulled the second child to safety. He brought the children back to the shore.
Carver said his feet didn’t touch the bottom of the marina. The plunge into the cold water also took his breath away when he fell in, rendering him speechless until he was out of the water. “I know the kids were in way worse condition than I was.”
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Once they were out of the water, Pike said the children were “terrified, crying and shaking,” with one child having “fully…
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