Heroic Kids Saved Lives

There are many accounts of heroic kids who’ve saved lives. There is one in particular that was especially heartfelt and moving enough to be made into a dramatic short film.

With her beguiling smile and twinkling eyes, 4-year-old Averie Carrion may not look like much of a hero, but don’t tell that to her mother and young brother, who were rescued from a crash on a wintry Iowa road after the little girl braved subfreezing temperatures and trekked through a quarter of a mile through waist-deep snow to find help and save her family.

“I’m very proud of her,” the girl’s mother, 25-year-old Jamie Carrion, told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira in an exclusive interview Friday. “She’s a very brave, smart little girl.”

The young family’s ordeal began Wednesday. Moving to a new home, Carrion had loaded their possessions into the back of a pickup truck and was heading down Route 10, not far from Granville, when she hit an icy patch, lost control of the truck and it overturned.