HE DID WHAT ANYONE WOULD HAVE DONE. >> LADY WAS DRIVING BY SAYING SHE HAD A MISSING DAUGHTER. DAUGHTER AND SHE WAS SPECIAL NEEDS AND NONVERBAL :09 REPORTER: JAKE MANNA WAS INSTALLING SOLAR PANELS IN PLYMOUTH, WHEN A MOTHER DELIVERED THAT FRANTIC NEWS. I>> WENT AND HELPED YOU KNOW, I WENT OUT AND LOOKED REPORTER: JAKE STARTED LOOKING ALL AROUND THE BUTTERMILK BAY AREA OF PLYMOUTH, RIGHT NEAR THE BOURNE BRIDGE. SKY 5 OVER THE HEAVILY WOODED AREA. JAKE GOING DOWN A DIRT ROAD TO A SWAMP. >> I SAW A DIAPER AND A T SHIRT FLOATING DOWN THE RIVER SO I JUST THOUGHT THE WORST, I SPRINTED AND MY HEART DROPPED REPORTER: HE SPRINTED UPSTREAM FOR A BIT, AND A FEW MINUTES LATER, DISCOVERED THE YOUNG GIRL IN ABOUT WASTE DEEP OF MUD AND WATER. >> RELIEF, STRAIGHT RELIEF WHEN I DID SEE SHE WASN’T UNDERWATER :12, SHE COULDN’T GET OUT ON HER OWN, SO THE FORMER LIFEGUARD WENT IN AND RESCUE HER, BRINGING HER TO SHORE AND TO HER MOTHER. >> SHE THANKED ME VERY MUCH, AND GRABBED HER DAUGHTER AND BROUGHT HER STRAIGHT DOWN TO THE GROUND AND WAS HUGGING HER FOR THE LONGEST TIME. REPORTER: TODAY, PLYMOUTH POLICE HONORING THE YOUNG MAN WITH A CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION. AN OFFICER SAYING ‘THAT GIRL HAD A GUARDIAN ANGEL YESTERDAY, AND HIS NAME, WAS JAKE.’ >> I’M NOT A HERO, I WAS JUST HELPING HER OUT, I WAS HELPING ANYONE OUT, ANYONE WOULD DO THE SAME. REPORTER: PLYMOUTH POLICE POSTING THIS ON FACEBOOK. THAT YOUNG MAN RECEIVING
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‘Guardian angel’: Solar panel installer finds missing girl with autism in marsh
Updated: 6:46 PM EDT Jul 15, 2022
A solar panel installer is being called a hero after finding a little girl who had been reported missing, Massachusetts police said. Police said Jake Manna was working in the Buttermilk Bay neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Wednesday when he learned people in the neighborhood were searching for a 5-year-old girl with autism. He stopped work and joined the search. Manna walked down a rural trail that ended at a stream, where he saw a diaper and T-shirt in the water. He ran down the stream and found the girl in waist-deep water, police said. The girl was walking into deeper water. Manna was able to make his way to her, put her over his shoulder and carry her out, police said.“If he didn’t pick that path and see the missing clothing, we hate to think about what the outcome would have been,” police posted. Manna is not from Plymouth and doesn’t know the area. “That girl had a guardian angel yesterday, and his name was Jake,” said Officer Vinnie Roth, who was responding to the original call.Plymouth police presented Manna with a certificate and Command Coin by Chief Dana Flynn and Capt. James LeBretton.“He is the nicest, most unassuming young man that one could meet,” police said.
A solar panel installer is being called a hero after finding a little girl who had been reported missing, Massachusetts police said.
Police said Jake Manna was working in the Buttermilk Bay neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Wednesday when he learned people in the neighborhood were searching for a 5-year-old girl with autism. He stopped work and joined the search.
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Manna walked down a rural trail that ended at a stream, where he saw a diaper and T-shirt in the water. He ran down the stream and found the girl in waist-deep water, police said. The girl was walking into deeper water.
Manna was able to make his way to her, put her over his shoulder and carry her out, police said.
“If he didn’t pick that path and see the missing clothing, we hate to think about what the outcome would have been,” police posted.
Manna is not from Plymouth and doesn’t know the area.
“That girl had a guardian angel yesterday, and his name was Jake,” said Officer Vinnie Roth, who was responding to the original call.
Plymouth police presented Manna with a certificate and Command Coin by Chief Dana Flynn and Capt. James LeBretton.
“He is the nicest, most unassuming young man that one could meet,” police said.
