‘HEROIC’ BOY, 7, GRABS CLASSMATE DANGLING FROM SKI LIFT

A seven- year- old boy is being

called a hero after he held on to a classmate dangling from a ski lift until rescue workers arrived with a net. The boy’s classmate lost a ski while on a chairlift at Lakeridge Ski Resort in Uxbridge, Ont., around noon Thursday and the boy slipped off the chair when he turned around to look for it. One of the boy’s friends on the lift grabbed him and held on, but couldn’t lift him back up, said Durham Regional Police Sgt. Bill Calder. The boy’s actions gave ski resort staff enough time — about two min- utes — to respond with a safety net. “For a seven-year-old to have that type of maturity and willpower, that is something that goes beyond the expectation for any kid — it’s basically heroic,” Calder said. The boy then dropped about 10 metres to the net held by four ski resort staff members. “The boy was pretty upset, he was crying and in pain,” said John Tustian, the director of outside operations at Lakeridge. He is in stable condition in a Toronto hospital and expected to make a full recovery.