Bride To Be HERO Engagement Photo Shoot Turns Rescue Mood Child Drowning
Bride To Be HERO Engagement Photo Shoot Turns Rescue Mood Child Drowning. Becki Salmon, 30, and her 33-year-old fiance, Matt Werner, of Andorra, traveled to the Wissahickon Creek in Fairmont Park last Saturday for a photo session ahead of their nuptials.
The engaged couple spent about three hours posing for pictures while braving extreme heat and humidity when suddenly one of the shots captured a little boy stepping into the murky stream in the background. 'He was obviously struggling to get back to the surface,' Ms Salmon told the station ABC 6 Action News. 'His head went back. He was bobbing up and down. I knew he was going under.'
Without a moment's hesitation, the quick-thinking fiancee rushed to the drowning child's aid, kicked off her flip-flops and dove into the creek in her clothes.
'If I would have had my wedding dress on that, that's what I would have been in the water in,' she said.
The fearless woman managed to reach the little boy struggling to stay afloat in the creek, pushed him over her shoulder and started slapping him on the back to expel the water he had swallowed
The 5-year-old boy's desperate mother soon followed Salmon into the stream and joined the rescue effort. The entire episode was documented by Salmon and Werner's photographer, Ken Beerger, who captured the woman jump into action and rush into the water after the child. A series of photos from that day show the child's mother leap into the creek after Salmon, and the two women carry the toddler to safety. The flushed, visibly shaken little boy could be seen cradled by his much relieved mother, with Salmon gently patting the child's back, a look of concern on her face. Luckily for the boy and his family, who were on vacation from Maryland at the time, the 30-year-old Good Samaritan is a trained lifeguard and paramedic . Her future husband is an EMT, and the couple's photographer is also a first responder. 'Once you're an EMT for a while, you're in emergency services, you don't think you react, it's what you're trained to do,' said Becki.
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