Everyday Heroes: The Cool Guys

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At the bottom of frozen Idaho Falls on the Snake River, Terek Beckman and Steven Haws spotted a white SUV turned upside down. A woman was standing neck-deep in the frigid water, holding a child. Instinctively, both men went to the rescue, scrambling over a guardrail and crawling across the ice. They could hear the current moving under the frozen surface as they approached the two. Haws extended his six-foot-six frame and grabbed the little girl. Beckman held her close to warm her and handed her to police, who had arrived on the scene. Then the two went back and pulled the woman out as well.
"Common sense was a little slow to kick in," Haws says. "Before I had time to think, I was on the ice." Or maybe he and Beckman were just a couple of cool guys of uncommon courage.

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From Reader's Digest - June 2007