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SURVIVE THEY DID
Angels help 2 young boys cheat death
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Manteca traffic officer David Bright congratulates the two girls in the center who were key to their mother jumping in the pool and saving the lives of Devin Fells, 6, and his brother Caleb, 2. They are Joselle, 6, and Lizete Salazar 8. The boys mom Marissa is seen at right and Maria Salazar is at left seen as the heroine in her neighborhood. - photo by GLENN KAHL
It is seen as a “Miracle on Judith Court” Tuesday afternoon that is responsible for two brothers, 6, and 2, being rescued by a neighbor who jumped into her pool to save the youngsters she said appeared lifeless, floating on the top of the water.Mother of five, Maria Salazar, was frying tortillas in her kitchen about 5:30 in the 1200 block cul-de-sac when she dropped one on the floor. Irritated with what she had done, she told her 6-year-old daughter, Joselle, to pick it up and throw it in the trash.“No, not in here,” she told her of the kitchen trash container. “Take it outside – it has oil on it.”There was no other reason for the children to have gone out near the pool as they were getting ready for dinner, but Joselle did what her mother told her to do.