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Firefighters, including lieutenant greg piccone, make it across the ice to help. >> i was really close enough to see their eyes, and they were in panic. they were almost listless at that stage. >> lieutenant piccone crawls across the ice, trying to disperse his weight. >> i reach the kids. that's when it got crazy. the ice broke. the kids, we all went right in. >> now six firefighters, two police officers, and the two children fight to stay afloat. >> it seemed like an eternity. >> there was no way that we were going to let these kids go. >> rescuers onshore scramble to pull everybody to safet...

The children onto the raft. >> we were kind of running out of room inside the raft. >> the two kids still in the water, joanna morales and her brother rafael, let go of the ice and start drifting away. >> you could see it in their faces. i started to lose one of them. >> la mancha quickly grabs the girl, joanna, leaving rafael for the moment. >> at that point i heard him say, i'm going to give up, and at that point, he kind of pushed off. and i reached in, and thank god i was close enough to reach him, and i grabbed him by his vest. i feel bad about it later. i'm happy i did it at the time. i ...

Panic. they were almost listless at that stage. >> lieutenant piccone crawls across the ice, trying to disperse his weight. >> i reach the kids. that's when it got crazy. the ice broke. the kids, we all went right in. >> now six firefighters, two police officers, and the two children fight to stay afloat. >> it seemed like an eternity. >> there was no way that we were going to let these kids go. >> rescuers onshore scramble to pull everybody to safety, and miraculously everybody, including the kids, make it back to solid ice and eventually to shore, more than 20 minutes after they fell in. >> ...

They were almost listless at that stage. >> lieutenant piccone crawls across the ice, trying to disperse his weight. >> i reach the kids. that's when it got crazy.p the ice broke. the kids, we all went right in. >> now six firefighters, two police officers, and the two children fight to stay afloat. >> it seemed like an eternity. >> there was no way that we were going to let these kids go. >> rescuers onshore scramble to pull everybody to safety, and miraculously everybody, including the kids, make it back to solid ice and eventually to shore, more than 20 minutes$ç after they fell in. >> the...

>> we were kind of running out of room inside the raft. ç >> the two kids still in the water, joanna morales and her brother rafael, let go of the ice and start drifting away. >> you could see it in their faces. i started to lose one of them. >> la mancha quickly grabs the girl, joanna, leaving rafael for the moment. >> at that point i heard him say, i'm going to give up, and at that point, he kind of pushed off. and i reached in, and thank god i was close enough to reach him, and i grabbed him by his vest. i feel bad about it later. i'm happy i did it at the time. i yelled at him and told h...