WATCH: A nine-year-old boy from Ashland, Maine saved his six-year-old autistic brother from drowning last week after he saw his brother lying face down in their family pool. Katie Zarrilli reports.
When nine-year-old Blake Vincent of Ashland, Maine heard a splash in his family’s pool, he didn’t expect to see his younger brother lying unconscious in the water.
“I went up there and I looked and I saw Hunter floating face down in the pool,” said Vincent about his six-year-old brother who has autism.
It all started when Vincent was on his way home from a friend’s house last week and heard something fall into the pool.
The boys’ mother, Pamela Bennett, was inside doing dishes and wasn’t aware the back door was unlocked and the padlock for the pool not on. She told CBS in the video that isn’t the case 99 per cent of the time.
When Vincent went to see what was in the pool, he noticed his younger brother lying there, not breathing.
“It was the scariest thing in my life,” he said.
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Without hesitation, Vincent yelled for his mother and jumped into the pool to save the six-year-old.
“If he wouldn’t have jumped in and got him, Hunter would not be with us…” Bennett said.
Bennett got into the water too and helped her youngest son regain his breath as Vincent called 911.
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“And I was like oh my God, I saved my brother’s life,” Vincent said.
“He’s a really good big brother. He’s amazing,” Bennett added.
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