Two models rescue a group of teenagers from a frozen lake
This week on America's Next Top Good Samaritan, two models rescue a group of teenagers from a frozen New York pond.
Per the New York Post, Ethan Turnbull and Bennett Jonas were skateboarding in Central Park on Monday when they came upon a horrifying scene: A group of teenagers who'd fallen through ice and were struggling to crawl to safety.
As CNN reports, the teenagers had been posing for a photo on the ice before it gave way beneath them.
In a post to Instagram, Jonas describes the moment he and Turnbull spotted the teenagers and made the split-second decision to dive in and rescue them.
"When I got about waist deep two of the kids jumped on top of me and pulled me under. I had to pick them both up and throw them to Ethan. I then grabbed a ladder and pulled the next two in. Behind them were two lifeless bodies that I knew I couldn't get too. I swam out and grabbed the last two guys and was able to get them to shore and keep them alive. I feel humbled and grateful that God called me to be there tonight, I'm still shaking and am completely shook by what I experienced, but I'm alive and so are six other kids who got very lucky tonight."
As ABC reports, the teenagers were rushed to local hospitals and treated for hypothermia. Six of the people who fell through the ice have been released, while one boy remains in the hospital.
As the mother of Brandon Sargeant, a 14-year-old boy who Jonas and Turnbull pulled from the lake, tells ABC, she's grateful someone risked their own safety to help her son.
"Thank God for him ... I appreciate it, whoever you are, sir, but thank you, thank you. Because he was shaking too, on the news. I saw him shaking. I'm like, wow, thank God, a Good Samaritan."
Jonas and Turnbull are represented by Soul Artist Management.
