A five-year-old Nova Scotia boy living with autism is
being hailed a hero after locating an injured man hidden behind a snowbank in
the Halifax area.
Chase Faulingham was out walking with his grandfather one
afternoon. They got as far as the MacKay Bridge overpass on Princess Margaret
Boulevard when Chase heard something.
“He heard a noise, and he said, stop. So we stopped,”
says the boy's grandfather, Thomas Murray. “I didn't hear anything. So we took
a couple of steps forward, [he said] 'no
Poppa Jim, listen, help.'"
His grandfather then heard a faint cry for help coming
from the sidewalk behind a high snowbank.
The two climbed up, finding a semi-conscious injured man lying on the
other side.
"He wasn't in sight when we were walking down the
road, so he must have fell, tripped, or whatever before," says Murray.
The two waited patiently until an ambulance arrived to
take the injured man to hospital.
Chase’s mother Jamie MacKinnon says she couldn’t be
prouder.
"People, when
they see a special needs child, seem to put limits on him,” MacKinnon says.” It
just goes to show that he's a healthy little five-year-old boy."
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