n.b .,: He dialled 911 and rushed down an embankment, across a busy street, down another embankment and over train tracks to the edge of the frozen Kennebecasis River, according to CTV. It was there he found a man in his 70s clinging to a sheet of ice. Chamberlain, 26, had just finished sweeping a chimney in Rothesay, N.B., on Jan. 19, 2014 when he heard a man desperate cries for help in the distance. Chamberlain said he reassured him that help was on its way, and the man managed to pull himself back up onto the ice. "But then he fell through the ice again, right in front of me," said Chamberlain in an interview Wednesday, after being decorated for bravery by Governor-General David Johnston in Halifax. "I'll never forget seeing that.... He was there and then he was gone. This man is big. He was completely submerged." The man did manage to resurface and grab hold of a sheet of ice. "I guess instinct kicked in and I started to try and make my way out to him," said Chamberlain, who waded through freezing waist-deep water before climbing on top of the ice and crawling the rest of the way on his stomach. "I didn't know how I was going to get this man out of the hole.
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