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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Little Hero: Five Year Old Boy with Autism Finds the Right Words to Help Rescue an Injured Man



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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