'It Had To Be Me': Colorado Woman Recounts Stunning Rescue From Frozen Pond
On Sunday, Dusti Talavera of Arapahoe County, Colorado, looked out the window of her apartment and saw several kids on the ice of a nearby pond. The siblings were out together playing, not realizing how precarious a…
On Sunday, Dusti Talavera of Arapahoe County, Colorado, looked out the window of her apartment and saw several kids on the ice of a nearby pond.
The siblings were out together playing, not realizing how precarious a situation they were putting themselves in as they cavorted across the surface of the pond, which was 15 feet deep.
Then disaster struck.
“I was looking out my window, and saw the kids … fall in,” Talavera said during a news conference on Monday, according to KCNC-TV.
In a flash, Talavera put on her shoes and ran to help the three Children in the water.
“Before I realized it, I was on the pond pulling the two kids out, and that’s when I fell in the pond for the third kid,” Talavera said.
Two managed to get out unharmed, but the third, 6-year-old Zakiyah Williams, had been under the water for several minutes.
By the time Talavera found her and brought her to the surface, she too was struggling. Thankfully, a Good Samaritan threw a rope to her and helped her get out, according to KMGH-TV