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'It Was Scary': Good Samaritan Who Saved Drowning Boy's Life Breaks Down in Tears While Describing Potentially-Deadly Ordeal

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A hero broke down in tears as he recounted saving a little boy who was drowning in a New York City pool.

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Anthony Torres was swimming Sunday at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn when he saw a 5-year-old boy facedown and unresponsive in the water.

Rather than waiting to flag down a lifeguard, Torres immediately took action. Lifeguards then performed CPR, and the boy was transported to a hospital; he is expected to be OK.

“When I picked him up out of the water I kept screaming, ‘Help!'” Torres told WCBS-TV. “I submerged myself into the water to pick him up. He was facedown in the water in like a fetal position.”

Another witness told WCBS-TV, “It was scary” to watch the boy’s ordeal. The child, at first, reportedly wasn’t responding to CPR efforts. Thankfully, he survived.

Torres became visibly emotional during an interview with WABC-TV, sharing how he had never seen or experienced anything like he saw during the rescue.

“It’s traumatic. I was a lifeguard for two years,” he said through tears. “I’ve never seen nothing like that. It’s a very traumatic experience.”

Praise God for this good Samaritan’s quick and kind actions and the little boy’s survival.

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Billy Hallowell writes for CBN's Faithwire.com. He has been working in journalism and media for more than a decade. His writings have appeared in CBN News, Faithwire, Deseret News, TheBlaze, Human Events, Mediaite, PureFlix, and Fox News, among other outlets. He is the author of several books, including Playing with Fire: A Modern Investigation Into Demons, Exorcism, and Ghosts Hallowell has a B.A. in journalism and broadcasting from the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York and an M.S. in social research from Hunter College in Manhattan, New York.