Amazing video footage captures a heroic Utah student lifting a car to save a school staff member and her children who were trapped underneath it outside their school.
Layton Christian Academy staff member Bridgette Ponson was leaving work with her children Tuesday afternoon when a driver backed into them while being temporarily blinded by the sun, officials said.
Surveillance showed a stream of at least 20 students racing to lift the car to free Ponson and her children, 2-year-old son Archer and 3-year-old daughter Brightley.
“I heard all this commotion, people telling me, ‘Come help, come help!’ so I dropped my stuff and ran,” sophomore Theo Roach told KSL-TV.
“We all just got together and started lifting the car,” said Roach, who heard “Lift” shouted in several different languages by international students at the private school.
“I looked under the car, and the baby was lying there,” another student hero, eighth-grader Utulei Simaumea, told the outlet.
Layton Christian Academy surveillance cameras captured the heroic rescue. Mother Bridgette Ponson was rescued with her 2-year-old son, Archer, and her 3-year-old daughter, Brightley.
“And the mom was like, ‘Please! Please! Please!'” Simaumea said. “I was shocked, and then I immediately told myself, ‘Think about Mom.’ I said, ‘What would someone do for your mother?’”
The school’s CEO Chris Crowder recalled how proud he was of how “all these kids from different countries just came out and lifted it up.”
“Women, men, it doesn’t matter, they all just take their places in the car and lift it.”
Students say their adrenaline kicks in. “I think we might look like we’re not the kind of people who can lift a car, but we did it,” Roach said.
Every few seconds, more and more students were seen running out to lift the sedan.
As the children were picked up, a senior Air Force officer who was at the school to pick up his children helped pull out the mother and children, who he admitted feared would be their fate.
“I was like, ‘Hey guys, let’s get the car up high enough so we can get the kids out,'” Senior Airman Dominique Childress told Fox 13.
The 3-year-old girl was able to crawl out and Childress was able to rescue the baby boy who was held in his mother’s arms, who was rescued about 15 seconds later.
Although baby Archer was unconscious and purple in the face, his rescuers soon found a pulse.
He was taken to hospital but did not appear to have broken bones or suffered serious injuries, a miraculous outcome shared by his sister.
Mother and children survived after students lifted their stuck car.
Their mother suffered severe injuries from when she hugged her son to protect him, and is expected to require multiple surgeries, the school said.
“It’s a miracle,” Crowder, the school’s CEO, told KSL.
“I’m really proud of our kids … the kids just run and without having to tell them what to do, they just know what to do.”
Childress also said that even though he is a man in uniform, the children are the real heroes.
Bridgette suffered severe injuries and is expected to undergo several surgeries, but all three victims are expected to survive.
“They are the purest form of the word ‘hero’, and they deserve every bit of praise and worship they get because what they do is not easy for a teenager to do,” he said.
Police are still investigating the crash, and it’s unclear if the driver will face any charges.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
