Marine from Hixson TN saves drowning child
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Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics
A marine from Hixson has saved a drowning child. Sgt. Michael Austin Pickett says he was relaxing on Atlantic Beach in North Carolina when he heard people shouting. An 8-year-old boy had been pulled about 70 yards into the Atlantic Ocean by a rip current and Pickett sprinted into action to save the boy. Pickett is a 2006 graduate of Hixson High School, and the son of Ed and Dixie Pickett.
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