LOGAN, Utah (ABC4 News) - A good Samaritan saved a little boy from drowning after the boy was swept up by the Logan River.
"I just saw what could be two kids reaching over to grab something," said Tyson Cheshire who was driving along the Logan Canyon yesterday afternoon.
He saw two young children playing on rocks near the Logan River. Their parents were not around.
That's when one of them disappeared.
"I just noticed one of them go over, it just went down and I didn't know exactly what happened," Cheshire said.
Cheshire drove downstream in hopes of getting in front of the child.
After stopping, he took out some tie-down cords and wrapped one around his waist and tied the other around a tree. He then jumped into the river, just in time.
"Luckily it (child) came almost by me," he said. "I just grabbed him by the pants and belt buckle and yanked him out and he was just choking and coughing."
But alive. His mother took the child into his arms.
"From the Spanish I know she kept saying 'thank you, thank you,'" Cheshire said.
Tyson Cheshire is a reluctant hero. He doesn't want any credit. But eight years ago he was in the World Trade Center when it was attacked. He survived. And now he's wondering if his life was spared for this day.
"God works in mysterious ways," he said.
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