‘It’s utterly amazing’: 13-year-old Buffalo Grove teen saves man from near drowning

On a recent hot summer day, Jaydynn Britva was hanging out with friends at a Lincolnshire lake when he heard the screams of a drowning man calling for help.

Within a couple seconds, the 13-year-old jumped into the water.

“I thought he was faking it,” Jaydynn said. “But then, I realized that he wasn’t.”

At 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 144 pounds, Jaydynn grabbed the 19-year-old man and pulled him to shore, thinking: “I’ve got to save this guy.”

“He looked like he had so much water going into his lungs,” Jaydynn said. “I didn’t want him to drown or have something happen to him.”

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