Winnipeg woman saves drowning child and father, says 'I don't feel like a hero'
A Winnipeg woman, Jayclyn Morrissette, rescued a young girl and her father from drowning in the Red River after the father struggled to save his daughter. Despite being hailed as a hero, Morrissette insists she was simply acting with urgency to save lives.
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A Winnipeg woman who rescued a child and her father from drowning in the Red River on August 24 near St. John’s Park is being called a hero, but she said she doesn’t feel like one.“I’m just a mom. I don’t feel like a hero,” Jayclyn Morrissette, 32, told CBC.Woman saves two livesOn Monday (August 24) evening, Jayclyn Morrissette was taking a walk with her neighbour at St. John’s Park in Winnipeg’s North End. When they stopped at a bench overlooking the Red River, she ‘noticed a little girl flailing in the water’.Her neighbour ran to find the parents, who were frantically searching for their daughter. Morrissette, on the other hand, went directly to the water’s edge.
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