Screams were coming from the woods, but the three lifeguards who had just started their shift at the Ohio pool didn’t hesitate.
They sprinted away from the Pataskala Municipal Park and raced toward the screams, through the trees to the rushing river that flowed beyond.
Eighteen-year-old lifeguard Kaden Ross ran the 150 yards to the woods, hopped a fence, and made it to the river first. A woman was drowning in the murky waters of the Licking River, which had been surging after a series of summer storms…