Michael Thomas Frawley helped to save Robert Kehoe III and attempted to save Robert Kehoe, Jr., from drowning, Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 23, 2014. While on a late-afternoon outing at a municipal park with his father and siblings, Robert, 9, fell from a rock ledge into a deep pool of water at the base of a Roaring Brook waterfall. The pool, within a gorge, was not accessible from its steep, rocky banks. As Robert struggled to stay afloat in the 38-degree water, his father, Kehoe, 29, jumped in after him, but he too struggled. Frawley, 18, college student, was in another party nearby. He and a friend went to a rock at the edge of the pool about 20 feet above the water, the friend then jumping into the pool for Robert. Frawley removed items of attire, and then he too jumped, feet first, into the pool, for Kehoe. Kehoe having submerged, Frawley swam to where Robert was struggling against his friend, submerging him. Frawley took Robert from his friend, allowing him to make his way to a log at the edge of the water, where he rested. Supporting Robert, Frawley swam downstream to an accessible point on the bank and left the water, soon joined by his friend. A hiker tended to them, giving them items of his attire, and responding firefighters threw blankets down to them. In falling darkness, they were removed, with difficulty, by first responders to the top of the gorge and then taken to the hospital for treatment, Frawley suffering from cold exposure. He recovered. Kehoe was removed from the water later that evening. He had drowned.
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