Carson Couch doesn’t consider himself a hero, although to many he probably is.
It was October 2nd when the Belmont firefighter made a rescue that was unlike any other in his career.
Couch, off-duty at the time, was driving down Piedmont Golf Course Road with his brother when he saw a frantic man on the side of the road. Just beyond him was a truck, quickly sinking in a pond.
“We slowed down; I rolled my window down and pulled over to him,” Couch said. “He kept asking if I could swim, and that’s when my little brother saw the child in the car.”
Trapped in the back seat of the truck was a two-year-old boy.
“All I saw was his face and hands just like this, pushed up against the glass of the back of the pick-up truck.”