He heard screams, jumped a fence, and saved two men

A merchant marine cadet pulled two men from a swimming pool near his home in Foster City, California, after hearing screams from an apartment complex. Zion Jerge, who trains at the Cal Poly Maritime Academy, jumped a fence and dove in. "When I arrived at the pool, I saw the father floating face down," he said. He pulled the older man out first, then heard more screaming and realized a second man was lying at the bottom of the deep end. That was the father's 25-year-old son, the one he had been trying to save. Jerge brought him up unconscious and began CPR until water came out of his lungs and the son was breathing again. Police and fire crews arrived when the work was already done. The son went to the hospital conscious. Jerge later received a lifesaving commendation for what the Foster City Police Department called "a bias to action when others needed him most."