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NORTH LOGAN -- If not for an 8-year-old boy's quick action, the outcome of two children's play in the snow would have been devastating.
"I've been calling him my hero since yesterday morning," the boy's mother, Maria Metivier said.
But her son, Roman, embarrassed by the attention, just shrugs it off.
"I don't know. I just feel like I'm the same," he said.
The parents never thought anything like this could happen. The kids were at a neighborhood park not 200 yards from their home in north Logan Saturday enjoying the fresh snow and were playing on the slide, goofing around with sleds when the unthinkable happened.
He's a really, really brave super hero.
–Londyn
Six-year-old Londyn was playing on the slide with the sled when the rope attached to the sled caught around her neck, strangling her.
"I put [the rope] around me because I thought it would go down behind me," Londyn said.
As she went down the slide the rope got caught on the playground equipment, strangling her. In her wet snow boots, she couldn't get her footing to go back up the slide.
Roman saw what was happening. He grabbed the sled and turned it sideways, loosening the rope and saving her life.
"He's a really, really brave super hero," Londyn said.
"It could have been too late by the time he got home and got us back here," his mother said.
The family is grateful for Roman but says that's the kind of kid he is. His story has been spreading quickly and one person showed up this morning and gave him a $100 reward for his actions. In true hero form, he decided to share that with his sister and three-year-old brother. The family has a new rule , though: sleds do not leave the ground.
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