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Northern Michigan woman receives awards after saving children from drowning I don t think (people) realize how quickly you can get sucked out there
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Mark Cameron, Jamie Racklyeft, Alyssa Dewitt aand Josh Glass are shown after an award ceremony for Dewitt for her efforts in saving three children from drowning at First Street Beach, in Manistee on May 25. Arielle Breen/News AdvocateShow MoreShow Less
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Alyssa Dewitt stands with daughters Cleo Knapp (left) and Briar Knapp after Manistee City Police Chief Josh Glass (right) presented her with several awards. Dewitt saved several children from a near drowning incident at First Street Beach last month. (Arielle Breen/News Advocate) Show MoreShow Less
“I don’t think that [the 911 operator] could hear me. I couldn’t hear them. The best I could do was scream into the phone we needed help, there were kids drowning,” she said.
She laid on her stomach on the pier and reached for the children, all younger than 15, who were overpowered by rip currents while swimming in the lake.
Dewitt
grabbed hold of the
children. When she was pulling them out of the water, the waves would strike the children and push them back in, she said.
“This part will stick with me forever. This girl looked at me and said, ‘I’m going to die.’ It makes me cry every time I think about it,” Dewitt said,
Michigan Woman Saves Three Kids from Drowning
A very scary situation could ve turned deadly if it weren t for the heroic acts of one Michigan woman.
UpNorthLive says the incident occurred Tuesday evening just before 6 p.m. when Alyssa Dewitt, of Manistee, was on the beach near First Street Beach Pier when she heard kids screaming and arms waving in Lake Michigan. She ran to the beach where she noticed three kids were being pulled by the currents. She said she immediately called 911 and then got down on her side to try and pull them out of the water.
Every time I would get them part way up, a wave would smash them back down.