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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Teenagers Honoured For Saving Man


(Randy White, Jared Laming and Josh Doyle receive Red Cross Rescuer Awards for saving a drowning man)
(Photo by Sherry Aske)

Three teenagers are being honoured with Red Cross Rescuer Awards after saving a man from drowning in Lake Treadwell.

Fourteen year-old Jared Laming and his two friends Josh Doyle and Randy White getting ready to play a game of paint ball when they heard a man crying for help in the water.

Laming says they quickly got into a canoe and pulled the man to shore on a raft. 

He says it seemed like it took along time but it was really only a minute before they saved him.

The Red Cross reports there have already been 32 water related deaths this year in Atlantic Canada and all of the victims have been men.