ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A special thank you was offered Monday to two first responders who saved a life, from a football team that knows a little something about great saves.
On a brutally cold November morning, Islip town park rangers on patrol got an alarming call. A car had driven off Ocean Avenue straight across a grassy lawn into a deep canal. When John Rivera and Anthony LaGrasta pulled up, the situation seemed grim.
“Hypothermia was setting in on him and he was losing movement of his limbs” LaGrasta told CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff.
“He kind of atrophied almost.