PLYMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) – After 20-year-old Jake Manna sprang to the rescue to avoid wasting a five-year-old lady idling in a marsh, Plymouth credited the person with saving the kid’s life.

“I’m not a hero,” mentioned Manna. “Anybody would do it in my sneakers.”

Manna was at his job putting in photo voltaic panels on a house in Plymouth when phrase reached him that an autistic five-year-old lady had gone lacking.

The Hanover man, accompanied by a neighbor, journeyed into the woods to look. When he noticed a diaper and a protracted t-shirt within the water of a creek, Manna thought the worst.

“My coronary heart dropped,” mentioned Manna. “I sprinted to the marsh space.”

Manna started calling to the lady, pleading along with her to return to shore. When she wouldn’t transfer, Manna shed his socks and sneakers to wade into the water after her. Manna was capable of gather the lacking lady and go her to the neighbor ready on the financial institution.

“I’m very grateful to the gentleman and thank God he was there,” the mom of the rescued little one instructed 7NEWS.

In accordance with Plymouth Police Captain Jason Higgins, the actions of Manna

“There’s a variety of rivers- the marshy space. Harmful place for a five-year-old,” mentioned Higgins. “The little lady did have a guardian angel and his title was Jake.”

Manna later obtained an award from the Plymouth Police Chief and went out to dinner later that night, the place he mentioned he was handled to a free meal.

“A random couple offered- really, they didnt supply. They simply paid for it and didnt inform me and simply left,” mentioned Manna. “It was actually cool.”

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