Hail These Heroic Teens

Let’s hear it for the boys: Five New Jersey high-school lads did the Lord’s work Thursday, forming a human chain to reach a pair of kids whose sled crashed into an icy pond.

Rich Heid took his kids Olivia, 8, and RJ, 4, to the slopes at an Atlantic Highlands country club and even picked a smaller hill, away from other kids, to be safe.

“They went down once and loved it,” he told The Post. But on their second run, they “kind of ricocheted from a tree and the sled turned, and it was backwards and took off. I grabbed a small sled and went after them. I was yelling ‘Jump off ! Jump off !’ [but] of course they couldn’t.”

“Luckily,” as he said, “those five teenagers were at the bottom of the pond.” The teens, all freshmen at Middletown HS North, stopped their own sledding when they heard the dad’s cries.

Without thinking twice, 14-year-old Boy Scout Kiernan Foley jumped into the water and waded out to the panicking children. “I picked up RJ and handed him to my friend,” he said, then, “I grabbed Olivia and I was able to get her up and handed her off.”

His pals — Ryan Day, 15, and Drew Scalice, Joseph Dietrich and Tyler Armagan, all 14 — passed the tots to shore.

The boys are humble about their heroism, brushing off suggestions of rewards. “It’s what you do . . . You do a good deed, you don’t do it for rewards,” said Foley.

Foley proved himself a solid Scout — ready to act in a crisis, “to help other people at all times.”

High-fives all around, young men.