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Ilan Coberly waded through icy water to save Coda, the Camp family’s pet, from drowning or freezing in the “frog pond.”
Ilan Coberly, Theron Schlomer and Jesse Berry at the frog pond, where the dog rescue occurred.
Last Wednesday after school, two Odessa fifth graders, Ilan Coberly, and Jesse Berry were walking by the so-called “frog pond,” just up the hill from Coberly’s home and saw a dog stuck in the ice but alive. Coberly went out onto the ice and fell through but bravely kept going in icy water up to his chest until he reached the dog and pulled it free. The dog, Coda, belongs to Elizabeth Camp.
Berry ran to Coberly’s home and told Gina Schlomer, Ilan’s mother, what had happened and what her son was doing. He then went on to the Camp home to report to them about their dog.
Theron Schlomer, Coberly’s step-brother and also a fifth-grader, went to the pond to help and took Coda back to the Camp home, where warm and dry surroundings were no doubt much appreciated by the canine victim.
Gina Schlomer told The Record that her son was very cold and wet when he got home, but he was doing well after getting warm and dry again.
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