Stephen Ellison of Newcastle, England, wears many hats, from diplomat to triathlete and hero. The 61-year-old recently became the consul general(总领事) in Chongqing, where he was on top of navigating trade agreements between Britain and China, and he just saved a life!
On November 14, Ellison was taking a walk near a local river when he heard a sudden crowd noise near the water. A college student had slipped and fallen in while taking pictures, and it was clear she couldn’t swim.
Many onlookers watched as she fought the water, but nobody moved to help until Ellison threw off his shoes and jumped in! He swam over to the 24-year-old student, who was face down in the water at that point. Fortunately, someone found a life buoy(救生圈) and threw it to Ellison, which he used to keep the student’s head above the surface. He then pulled her to a shallow spot, and other people teamed up to lift her onto dry land.
Thanks to Ellison’s quick actions and the community’s support, she’s going to be OK! “She was unconscious. She was not breathing, and for a short time we feared the worst,” Ellison said. “But as we got back to the side, she started breathing again.”
While she was shaken, the woman couldn’t be more grateful. She even invited him to dinner with her family to thank him! She thought that’s the least that she could do for the man who saved her life! While Ellison said he wasn’t a hero, people around the world were saying otherwise! As one person put it on social media, “You’d call such a person a knight in the UK; in China we call him a hero.”
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