GREELEY — Two Greeley teens are being praised as heroes for taking a young child to safety after they saw him outside, alone and lightly dressed in 22-degree weather.
The Greeley Tribune reported that Claudia Salas and Jessica Espino found the boy walking along a street as they were driving back to West High School after lunch on Dec. 2.
The boy, who was about 2, had no shoes and his socks and pants were wet up to his calves, Salas said. He was carrying a blanket but didn’t have a coat, she said. A police report put the temperature at 22 degrees and said snow was on the ground.
“He wasn’t crying, but he was scared,” Salas said.
Salas and Espino couldn’t find any adult caring for him, so they drove him to their school. Salas held him and tried to warm him up on the way.
The boy’s mother reported him missing later that afternoon, police said. She told officers she put him to bed for a nap and left briefly to speak to a neighbor, and discovered later he was gone, police said.
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