A police officer recalled the moment she saved an eight-year-old girl who fell into a frozen pond in Cambridge, Vermont.<br /><br />Bodycam footage from 17 December 2023 showed Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer wading into the freezing water after she received a call of a possibly deceased child in the pond.<br /><br />“I don’t know if it was training, or instinct, or probably a little bit of both. Something kicked in where I didn’t think, I just took action,” Trooper Archer said in a video released on 18 January.<br /><br />She was able to pull the child to shore, when Trooper Keith Cote arrived and rushed her to an ambulance on the scene and was immediately taken to hospital.<br /><br />She made a full recovery and returned home, according to officials.
