Teen swims to the rescue.Chloe Grenga, a 14-year-old sophomore at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, Rhode Island Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the second largest city in the state, with 85,808 people. Its mayor, since 2000, has been Scott Avedisian. Founded by Samuel Gorton in 1642, Warwick has witnessed major events in American history. , went swimming with her softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team last July at Spring Lake in nearby Burrillville. Suddenly, she heard a young boy's voice coming from deep water between the lake's edge and a floating dock in the middle. "Help me! Can you please help me?" called the boy, who appeared to be about six or seven. Chloe yelled yell v. yelled, yell·ing, yells v.intr. To cry out loudly, as in pain, fright, surprise, or enthusiasm. v.tr. To utter or express with a loud cry. See Synonyms at shout. n. to her friends to call the lifeguard, but they couldn't hear her. And two lifeguards on shore seemed unaware of the situation. She decided that the rescue was up to her. She swam swam v. Past tense of swim. swam Verb the past tense of swim swam swim to the boy and let him put his arms around her neck while she held him around his waist. She swam to shore while holding him. "I just tried to calm him down because he was scared and I kept telling him he was going to be okay," she told the Warwick Beacon Beacon, city (1990 pop. 13,243), Dutchess co., SE N.Y., on the E bank of the Hudson River; settled 1663, inc. in 1913 when Fishkill Landing and Matteawan villages were united. . "I asked him if he knew how to swim How to Swim is a cartoon made by the Walt Disney Company in 1942. In this cartoon, Goofy provides an educational treatise on swimming and diving with questionable results. , because I was thinking maybe he was just getting tired, and he said no. So I asked him what he was doing trying to swim out there, and he said he wanted to jump off the dock." "I'm pretty proud of her and I thought she was like an angel to the child," Chloe's mom, Stephanie, told the newspaper. "If she didn't go that little boy might not be here today." When Chloe told a lifeguard at the lake about the incident, the lifeguard thanked her and told her the noise level prevented her from hearing the boy's calls. Chloe is a member of her school's swimming team and aspires to become a lifeguard when she is old enough. |
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