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CARY, Ill.<\/strong> – Three firefighters were named lifesavers in Cary on Tuesday night for their rescue of two people who fell through the ice on a lake.<\/p>\n Two of the firefighters were off duty when it happened, but their quick actions made all the difference.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n There were warm hugs between the Cary firefighters and the people they rescued from an icy lake. Everyone celebrated the outcome of what could\u2019ve been disastrous.<\/p>\n Darlene Boettin and Nathan Fennig had to be pulled from Lake Killarney in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n They went out to fish and the ice broke beneath them.<\/p>\n Darlene said she was worried about her son.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I was terrified, terrified. It\u2019s really hard to think about how this could\u2019ve been way worse,” she said.<\/p>\n Nathan said he was also uneasy about the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I\u2019m feeling better right now and I just want to thank everyone for caring about us and keeping watch,” Nathan said.<\/p>\n The two off-duty firefighters, who are brothers, came running from their house to help. A third neighbor went into the water too and brought a ladder.<\/p>\n Ben and Cody Delatorre didn\u2019t have rescue gear with them, only an extension cord to provide a tether.<\/p>\n Ben said he didn\u2019t think twice about what to do,<\/p>\n “I\u2019d do it the same way for anyone, coming from home, going right out there, try to pull them out,” Ben said.<\/p>\n “I was there first, saw they were both in the water. I got my cord, saw my brother coming up the street in his truck and I was like, \u2018Oh, got another person here with me,\u2019” Cody said.<\/p>\n The chief was watching and his heart sank. The brothers in the frigid water are his sons.<\/p>\n Firefighter Kyler Ochab arrived in his dive gear to complete the save.<\/p>\n Kyler said he followed his training.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Feels good. Everyone ok, everything worked out,” he said.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s all part of being a firefighter. You have to like to help people, that\u2019s why we got into this. They knew someone\u2019s life was in danger and you can\u2019t get there quick enough,” said retired Cary Fire Captain Andy Veath.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The firefighters\u2019 names are inscribed on a plaque, the award given for a spectacular rescue. The neighbor who helped also received a community service award.<\/p>\n The victims and rescuers all happen to be neighbors, which heightened the urgency and intensity for the young firefighters.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> The information in this article was reported by FOX Chicago’s Joanie Lum.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cary<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARY, Ill. – Three firefighters were named lifesavers in Cary on Tuesday night for their rescue of two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":614435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[89096,960,5386,1818,24563,50,68],"class_list":["post-614434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-cary","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-mchenry-county","tag-news","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116129669748724818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}