{"id":1008948,"date":"2021-11-13T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1008948"},"modified":"2021-11-13T20:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T01:58:34","slug":"indiana-man-recalls-rescue-of-2-drowning-children-earning-him-a-carnegie-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indiana-man-recalls-rescue-of-2-drowning-children-earning-him-a-carnegie-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Man Recalls Rescue of 2 Drowning Children Earning Him a Carnegie Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findiana-man-recalls-rescue-of-2-drowning-children-earning-him-a-carnegie-medal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1008948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Carnegie-Hero-Medal-Recipient-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An Indiana man recently recalled his heroic rescue of two drowning children at St. Pete Beach in Florida, which earned him the Carnegie Medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Cooper was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carnegiehero\/posts\/1326942787497144\">fishing<\/a> on October 13, 2018, from the dock of a jetty at St. Pete Beach when he heard cries for help. The calls for aid came from a boy who was roughly five-years-old and a girl of about twelve-years-old, who were drowning, according to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2021\/11\/12\/marion-county-man-awarded-carnegie-hero-medal-for-saving-two-children-from-drowning\/\">recalled<\/a> the terrifying moments with WKMG in an interview that aired this week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carnegiehero\/posts\/1326942787497144\" data-width=\"640\" readability=\"25.262295081967\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/315660951958671\/posts\/1326942787497144\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" readability=\"8.7868852459016\">\n<p>#CarnegieHero Scott Cooper was fishing on Oct. 13, 2018, from the dock of a jetty in the Gulf of Mexico in St. Pete\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/315660951958671\">Carnegie Hero Fund Commission<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/315660951958671\/posts\/1326942787497144\/\">Monday, July 6, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Cooper told the news station:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><span>It\u2019s hard; some days, I mean, I think about it a lot. I still have nightmares from it. I was fishing on one side of it, and I went over just to bait my hook and heard, \u2018Help! Help!\u2019 from the water. And I look down, and I seen the little boy in the water, so I just jumped in, and as I was jumping in, I realized there was a girl right by him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The children were fighting to stay afloat, and time was fleeting as they were caught in a severe rip current.&nbsp;<\/span>Cooper told WKM:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><span>The rip current that day was more than anything I\u2019ve ever been in. I grabbed the little boy. He \u2014 I mean, he just climbed up right on me, and he kept putting me under, putting me under and as I was getting him, I was grabbing the little girl and I got them both pushed up against the dock.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Scott\u2019s wife, Gretchen, sprung into action once the boy was near the dock, according to WKMG.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI just did what I had to do for those kids,\u201d Gretchen told the WKMG. \u201cI was laying flat on that pier pulling that boy up, and I yelled and said, \u2018Somebody help me!\u2019 And another lady helped me, and we pulled him up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> The girl was unable to be lifted onto the dock, so Scott&nbsp;\u201cmoved the girl toward the large rocks that made up the jetty and assisted her in climbing them. Others helped the girl off the rocks,\u201d according to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grievously, the children\u2019s mother was also caught in the riptide and was too far from shore to be saved.<\/p>\n<p><span> Scott Cooper explained to WKMG:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><span>As I was floating myself back out there, I was thinking about trying to go out to the mom, but I knew I couldn\u2019t, there was just no way; I was exhausted already. I just hope they\u2019re doing OK, and I\u2019m sorry I couldn\u2019t do more that day. I really hope they are doing OK.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>During the rescue, Cooper ingested water and sustained injuries to his hands and feet, though he recovered.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His actions earned him the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission\u2019s Carnegie Medal.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The day he received a letter stating he was chosen to be honored with the award, he thought it was a joke, according to WKMG. \u201c<\/span>I typed it up on the internet and checked it out, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Hey it\u2019s real,&#8217;\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiehero.org\/about\/mission\/\">founded<\/a> in 1904 and honors civilians who have carried out acts of heroism in Canada and the United States, the commission\u2019s website states.&nbsp; To date, the commission has bestowed the award to over 10,000 heroes who performed life-saving measures.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s just part of what every human being should do for another human being,\u201d Cooper told WKMG. \u201cI honestly believe that somebody was looking over me that day. I really do because there\u2019s no way I should\u2019ve come out of that water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indiana man recently recalled his heroic rescue of two drowning children at St. Pete Beach in Florida, which earned him the Carnegie Medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}