Watch as Massillon, Ohio Police Officer Aaron Franklin teams up with the city’s fire chief to rescue five teenage boys from a high-flow storm drain after the group was swept away by strong currents following a brief but heavy rain.
A total of six teens between the ages of 13 and 15 were playing in the city’s typically-placid Sippo Creek after the downpour, but their afternoon of fun ended quickly when one of the kids lost his footing and was taken away by the current.
The remaining boys tried to form a human chain to rescue him… and they soon found themselves ALL downstream, holding on to avoid being swept into underground tunnels. Luckily, one of the five managed to make it back to high ground. He called 911.
Officer Franklin was the first to arrive on the scene, and he kicked into gear, assisting firefighters by tossing a life ring to retrieve the nearest two teens, after which Massillon Fire Chief Tom Burgasser tethered himself to 300 feet of rope and was lowered downstream to retrieve two more teens who he found just inside a drainage pipe.
The sixth teen had been swept away entirely, taken through a maze of pitch-black underground storm drain pipes and eventually spat out in a reservoir one mile away. From there, he managed to reach shore on his own.
Fun day at the creek.
(Did I mention that Officer Franklin would resuscitate an overdose patient less than two hours after this incident? Full video of that coming soon.)
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They should have been charged for this services. Dumb asses
was the blunt worth itðŸ˜ðŸ˜
This officer is great man later that day he saved. Guy from OD too the vids on here – plus hands up for that chief ! Leading by example and being hands on to rescue those kids
Need more cops like this for real
Don't judge the kids. We were once young and stupid. Now, well, we're older…..
I would be perfect if there had been a little girl tom boy in the group.
Feel for the last boy the fire chief pulled out – big booger hanging out of his nose, shorts gone, underwear around his ankles. Lucky his boxerbriefs got caught on his shoe rather than getting washed away. Despite his embarrassing predicament he was worried about his friends.
The Massillon Independent printed an extra edition that night.
Where are these kids brains at .. Jesus
So glad they were found safe- poor lads won’t do that again !!
Thats where his bag was at that od scene
They need Jeremy Wade.
This officer made a sequel of saving lives part 2 only 2 hours later
Doing all of that in shiny black patent leather shoes. Surely you'd want some work boots…
This is heartwarming
FRANKLIN IS DA MAN!
Wait did they have tubes or anything or just their own bodies?
where was the last kid
Didn’t they make a TikTok while they were entering it
I came from that one tictok but idk if this the right one
are these the guys from the tik tok ?😂
Who is from tik tok
POV your here from TikTok trying to find the group of teens who went down a storm drain trying to see if they survived
That one kid had the time of his life.
The sixth kid must be like "woah, what a water slide" i wouldve been scared but fun lmao. Besides the danger factor, but thats a minor part, right?
They said they were swimming yet were fully clothed. sureee
ACAB
Coming here from TikTok 😂😂