Sisters being called heroes after pulling boy from freezing water

CLARKSTON, Mich. (WXYZ) - Nine-year-old Sarah Wasserman and her seven-year-old sister Harlie are humble little girls and do not consider themselves heroes but that’s exactly what they are.

Just last week a 5-year-old boy was playing on a dock in the girls’ back yard. 

Sarah Wasserman saw the boy was testing out Lester Lake to see if the water was frozen. She warned him not to get too close to the ice.

“I started hearing crying with [him] in the water,” says Harlie Wasserman.

It was a big lesson all three children learned that day.

We are constantly on the kids about watching the ice conditions. It’s not safe to play on it especially in this weather with the temperature changes,” says the girls’ father Dave Wasserman.

Harlie and Sarah Wasserman remember the boy was in water up to his chest. Without hesitation, Sarah Wasserman reached in a grabbed the child and pulled him to safety.

Her little sister sprinted inside her home and got a towel to wrap around the little boy.

Sarah Wasserman, throughout the ordeal,  was never nervous or scared. “I wanted to get him out,” says Sarah Wasserman.

The rescued boy currently cannot swim and is taking swim lessons.

The girls' parents are very proud of their little heroines.

“We tell them not go near the ice and to be careful - glad they listened to us,” says Dave Wasserman.

When 7 Action News asked the girls if they were brave, they simply nodded their heads yes.