By Police1 Staff
PARKER, Colo. — An officer’s body camera showed the harrowing rescue of a teen who had fallen into an icy pond, Denver Post reported.
Officer Trey Biles quickly ran to Cole Robinson, who was struggling in the water on Jan. 14. Biles offered the teen a long tree branch to pull him out.
“Where’s everybody else at?” Biles yelled to Robinson as he extended the branch.
“They’re gone,” Robinson said.
“What do you mean?” Biles asked.
Biles was first to respond to the scene. Robinson’s friends, 15-year-old Max Gantnier and 16-year-old Patric Lanz, did not survive the accident.
Gantnier was in the water for 15 minutes and succumbed to his injuries 10 days later in the hospital. Lanz was pronounced dead after being removed from the pond 35 minutes after he fell in.
Doctors told authorities, if Robinson had stayed much longer, he too would have succumbed to serious injury or death.
In wake of the death, Chief David King has ordered 75 rope devices to place in patrol cars for another icy emergency.
“We have kids on the ice every single day,” Biles told the news site. “I have been to calls with kids from the same school on ice days after this happened.”
Police urge education and greater awareness about the dangers of thin ice.