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Paddleboarders Honored For Helping Suicidal Person In Mcintosh Lake
The Boulder County Sheriff's Office called the women "selfless."
LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4) – A small group of women who went paddleboarding on a lake in Longmont are being honored for being Good Samaritans and helping a man who was in the lake and going through a suicidal episode.
The incident happened on Mother’s Day weekend on McIntosh Lake. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says the five women spotted the man in the middle of the lake without a life jacket and acting strangely. When they approached him on their boards and tried to speak with him, he told them he was trying to kill himself.