Twin Cities resident Mebal Kaanyi is being called a hero. She’s the bus driver who was on the job, driving her route for Roseville area schools on Nov. 20, when she saw a 4-year-old boy run toward Lake Owasso. She said when he pushed the fence, and it opened, her heart skipped a beat. “I never swam a day in my life,” Kaanyi said.
Still, Kaanyi went into the water just as it was getting up to the boy’s neck, and he was struggling. “I grabbed his hand and thought, thank goodness.”
The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department said medics at the scene transported the boy to a local hospital, where his mother met him, and he has since recovered…