Via ABC:
FRESNO, Calif. — A 5-year-old boy nearly drowned in Dinkey Creek last week, but a vacationing Clovis, California police officer saved his life.
Corporal Curtis Shurtliff is a Clovis cop by day. But he also knows how to have fun, as a lot of people saw when he won a dance-off at the Clovis Rodeo in April. He was having fun again last week, camping with family at Dinkey Creek when he heard a desperate call for help.
“My son Hunter and I are running down the hill, and I’m asking again, ‘What’s going on?'” Shurtliff said. “And he said, ‘My 5-year-old son had drowned.'”
Shurtliff is a former paramedic, and he took over the emergency response from the man who pulled the boy, named Gabriel, from the water.