Rocky received Prize for his achievement.
Rocky has for decades been a fictional hero, but in Edmonton, Canada, Today there is a hero named Rocky who is definitely real; just eight years and four legs.
This Rocky, a cross between Labrador retriever and Husky, is hailed for pulling a nine-year-old girl out of a frozen river last Easter Sunday. Its owner, Adam Shaw, of 27 years, obtained a similar acclaim.
"If that man and the dog hadn't been there; I just try not to think about it.", said Miranda Wagner, the mother of Samara, nine-year-old, and her sister's 10 years, Krymzen, in an interview with CNN affiliate, CTV.
โI just wanted to give him a big hug and tell him that he is my hero.. If I hadn't been there I wouldn't have my girls.", said Wagner. "The doctors said two more minutes and Samara would be gone".
Rocky and Shaw's heroism was developed at the Saskatchewan Norte River in Edmonton last Sunday afternoon. The girls slid in a sled, said his father Corey Sunshine, the affiliate of CNN, CBC.
"What they told me was that, one of the sleds came from snow to ice mountain, They tried to return and the ice broke ", said.
Shaw said he walked on a bridge over the river when he heard shouts. When he looked down in the river he saw a girl in the ice water and her sister who tried to get her out.
For the moment in which Rocky and he ran towards the river, both girls were in the water.
It could get to the ice Krymzen, but the current leading to Samara, approximately 1.2 or 1.5 the shore of the ice, While his head entered and came out of the water, Shaw said at a press conference this Monday.
Asked the girl if she could swim towards him.
"He said he couldn't move his arms, I couldn't move his legs ", said Shaw.
He tried to pull strap to her Rocky, but it was not reached. Then, while trying to approach, the ice gave way under him and his dog.
โHe managed to put his front legs on the ice and pushed his back to be on the ice, Then I used the strap and him to try to get up on the ice ", said Shaw.
For this moment, Samara had diverted 50 or 60 yards below in the river, and still floated inside and outside the ice water. Shaw and Rocky ran towards her again, But it was still out of reach.
โI put the strap around Rocky and pushed it to get into the water, I told him that if I could take his belt, We could return to ice ", said Shaw.
"He jumped right by his side", said, and the girl could put both hands on the belt of Rocky.
"I called him back and swam towards the ice", said Shaw, While approaching enough so he could make the arm of the girl and her dog, To drag them away from the riverbank.
Fire Department rescue teams arrived shortly after and took to the sisters for treatment.
This Monday, they were at home with her grateful mother, and Shaw and Rocky were honored at the Firehouse; Shaw with a helmet firefighter and Rocky with a bone of giant leather taken from fire chief, Ken Block, until Block could take away the plastic wrap.
"These two young girls are very, very lucky that such a family has passed by and could intervene โ, said Block
Shaw argued not that.
"I think it's a kind of miracle that everything went perfectly", told CTV.
Source Brad Lendon – CNN