After a 5-year-old went missing in Volusia County, Florida, a deputy jumped into a pond to retrieve the boy, and the clip of the heroic rescue has gone viral.
When you watch the video, you’ll see Deputy Wes Brough frantically searching the woods for an autistic youngster who got lost.
After Deputy Brough has looked everywhere for the child, he hears the child scream for assistance and sees that he is clinging to a log in the center of a pond.
Without wasting a second, the deputy removes his belt and dives headfirst into the water. Luckily, another officer’s camera captures the moment when the deputy rescues the boy and brings him to safety as he reaches the beach.
Details surrounding the event were clarified by the Volusia Sheriff’s Office when the video started to circulate online.
The boy’s father alerted the deputies that his kid had fled from their house via a second-story door, so officers went to the scene of the crime in Deltona, Florida, on Tuesday evening, according to the VSO.
