A group of women traveling on a weekend road trip in Georgia can now add “lifesavers” to their résumés.
Five students from the University of Georgia are being honored as heroes after they took action during a dramatic turn of events last weekend.
Eleanor Cart, Kaitlyn Iannace, Clarke Jones, Jane McArdle and Molly McCollum were traveling from Athens to Savannah for a weekend of St. Patrick’s Day festivities.
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After turning along Murray Hill Road in Burke County, the group of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sisters approached the Brier Creek bridge — and saw something odd.
They saw a dust cloud below the bridge with a flash of white light, McCollum told Fox 5 Atlanta.
“We kind of like pulled over super fast, turn, go down this hill to this boat ramp area — and we just see this white minivan submerged underwater,” she said.
The young women jumped out of their car and toward the three passengers.
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“Two of the women quickly entered the water to get the victims to safety while the others gathered supplies and communicated with emergency responders,” according to Online Athens.
“We see the mom pop out of the car… We’re just tag-teaming, trying to get the children out of the water,” McCollum told Fox 5 Atlanta.
The college student said that along with the mother, there were two children in the back of the car — one about 4 years old.
“He was fully under[water] for … we think about four or five minutes,” she said.
While one student called 911, another put her lifeguarding skills to the test by performing CPR on one of the children.
Jones said it was a “worst-case situation” — but somehow, within a minute, the child began responding.
“It was so surreal. I mean, the mom just went and picked up her child and we all just kind of looked at each other and instantly started sobbing,” Jones…
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