Piper Rolfe didn’t let her blindness prevent her from saving her friend Irie Campbell from a vicious raccoon last weekend.
The two girls were playing in a park in Vermont when the incident happened. When the raccoon grabbed onto Irie, Piper started hitting the raccoon with a stick.
“I already had the stick. I don’t really know what I was thinking. I just thought to try to get it off Irie,” she said.
Felix, Irie’s 5-year-old brother, was also there and said that he wanted to help. “When Piper was beating it with a stick, I was trying to find a big enough stick. There was this really big stick. But since it was really big, I was afraid to use it,” Felix explained. “And then I screamed, ‘Get away from my sister, raccoon!’”
Luckily, the raccoon ran off, and Irie was treated for her injuries. She also received shots to prevent a rabies infection.
Irie’s father, Derek Campbell, said that Piper is a very brave girl. “Piper is a little hero. She is a cool kid. I mean Piper is a tough kid. She is one that will just, I mean she will barrel down any run at the ski mountain,” he said.
Piper isn’t the only disabled person to save someone’s life recently. Last week, a one-armed woman in Georgia saved a 4-year-old girl from drowning.
Corey and Michelle Brumlow took their daughter Caylee to the lake for her birthday and lost sight of her. They couldn’t find her in the lake water and thought the worst.
However, they suddenly saw her body being raised out of the water by a woman with one arm. Once Caylee was on shore, she spit up water and recovered consciousness.
Brumlow was very grateful for the woman’s heroic deed and gave her a hug.
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