A Vermont state trooper plunged into a frigid pond to rescue an 8-year-old girl who had fallen through the ice, with the anxious moment being caught on bodycam.
Trooper Michelle Archer made the heroic save on December 17 when the little girl and her 6-year-old sister were playing at the pond near their home when the ice gave way, WCAX reports.
An elderly neighbor who saw the children in distress managed to help the younger sibling out of the water but wasn’t able to swim out to get the drowning girl.
Thankfully, Archer was on patrol nearby and rushed to the scene.
“There wasn’t a whole lot of thinking going on. Something was taking over — training. It was the opposite of panic,” the trooper told local outlet Vermont News First.
The video captured by Archer’s bodycam device shows the moment she ran into the icy cold water with a flotation device and a rope.
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