KU rescuers

State News

March 15, 2019 - 3:43 PM

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Three University of Kansas fraternity brothers on a spring break trip to Florida are credited with rescuing a young boy from a riptide.

Jared Cox of Overland Park, Connor Churchhill of Olathe and Cole Firmature of Omaha went to a beach Monday in Destin, Fla. They were at a beach bar when they heard a woman cry out for a lifeguard and point to the water.

They spotted a young boy drifting on a boogie board 40 yards out into the ocean. Together, the three men swam out and brought the child to shore by pushing him on his board.

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