""They were just screaming, telling me to help them," Cheyenne Hangaman told The Associated Press. "And I watched all of them struggle, struggle to stay above the water. I watched all of them fight.""
""I ran across as much ice as I could to get to them and eventually ended up falling in myself," said Hangaman, who said the freezing water immediately shocked her body."
""I would grab one, try to put him on ice, but the ice just kept breaking every time I would sit him up there," she said. "I would just keep trying to go to each one of them trying to help them and it was only me, like I couldn't help them all by myself.""
Three brothers, ages 6, 8 and 9, died after falling through the ice of a private pond north of Bonham, Texas, during a massive winter storm. The children had been staying at a friend's house across the street from the pond. Their mother, Cheyenne Hangaman, jumped into the freezing water in an attempt to rescue them and described immediate physical shock from the cold. First responders and a neighbor pulled the two older boys from the water, and the youngest was recovered after an extensive search of the pond. Ice repeatedly broke when Hangaman tried to place the children on it, and a neighbor later threw a rope to pull her out.
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