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Did John Smith and Joshua Rieger fall through the ice?
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Did John Smith fall through the ice in Lake St Louis?
Did the kids know the ice was unsafe?
Things for the Smiths change when on Martin Luther King Day, John, Josh and Rieger, against warnings, are playing on frozen St. Louis Lake, they eventually falling through the ice into the water. While first responders are able to pull Josh and Rieger out without incident, John has fallen below the ice unconscious into the murky water below.
- Why Were John Smith and His Friends on The Ice?
- Did The Kids Know That The Ice Was Unsafe?
- Was John Smith Really Under Water For 15 minutes?
- How Deep Was The Lake Where John and His Two Friends Fell in?
- Does John Smith Remember Anything from The Day He Drowned?
- How Did The Other Two Boys Get Out of The Water?
- Had Joyce Smith Been Talking to Her Son Seconds Before He Went Through The Ice?
- How Long Did John Smith Have No Pulse?
- Did John's Heart Start Beating Again After His Mother Prayed Next to him?
- Is Actress Chrissy Metz (who Plays Joyce) A Believer in The Power of Prayer?
"You don't expect to be in that situation," John Smith said. "We all thought that we were just going to have fun, to celebrate. It's a holiday. We'd just won a basketball game, so we were just going to have a good time, but we weren't expecting that [with] one wrong move, we would be all one second away from dying." The photo shown below of then 14...
Yes. The Breakthrough true story reveals that the temperature had risen to close to 60 degrees that day and the ice on Lake Sainte Louise (near St. Louis, Missouri) had started to melt. "We could still step on it, but it was startin' to give way and water was going on top of it," recalled John. The three boys cracked the ice before stepping on it t...
Yes. Our Breakthroughfact check confirms that John Smith was under water for approximately 15 minutes before rescuers, including Tommy Shine, found him on the rocky bottom of the lake and pulled him to the surface. John was in the frigid water for a total of more than 20 minutes.
The lake was about 10 feet deep where John and his two friends went through the ice. After John succumbed to the frigid lake and drowned, his lifeless body was discovered on the rocky bottom.
Yes. "I remember the screams," Smith says. "'Call 911! I don't wanna die!'" He remembers being under water and coming up above the ice. He recalls fighting for his life and the burning sensation of the frigid water and the ice cutting his skin as he tried to climb out." He says that he tried to push ice to his friends for them to grab on to so they...
John's friend Joshua Sander managed to pull himself out. The other boy, Joshua Rieger, was trying to get out by pushing onto the ice and pulling himself, but the ice kept breaking. He was eventually pulled out when rescue personnel arrived.
Yes. In the film, they are just texting, but in real life, they talked on the phone after first texting. "I'd talked to him moments before he went into the water," Joyce Smith said. "In fact, he basically hung up the phone from me and the ice cracked under [him], he went under. So that was around 11:30 a.m. They called me at 11:52 a.m. to tell me."...
In researching the Breakthrough true story, we learned that John Smith was without a pulse for about an hour. He'd spent 15 minutes under water and another 40-plus minutes without a heartbeat after he was pulled from the lake. It was during that time that he was technically dead. "No spontaneous respirations. No heart tones. In essence, he was cold...
Yes. The doctor approached Joyce and told her she could go up and talk to her son to say her goodbyes. "He was doing that because he was getting ready to call time of death," says Joyce. She walked up to the end of the bed and touched his feet, which were the only part of his extremities that were uncovered. She recalls them being cold and grey. It...
Yes. "It's helped me so much in my life," she told Inside Edition, "and I think it's the reason why I'm standing here, you know, at this incredible premiere."
Apr 11, 2019 · Updated 11:58, 28 May 2020. |. Bookmark. John Smith was dead for an hour after falling into a frozen lake, but made a full recovery in a case that even doctors have described as a "bonafide...
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Apr 17, 2019 · 62% Tomatometer 65 Reviews 81% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Tragedy strikes when Joyce Smith's adopted son, John, falls through the ice on a frozen lake in Missouri. Trapped underwater for...
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- Chrissy Metz
Jan 19, 2020 · We’re checking in with John Smith 5 years later about what life has been like since his story was told on the big screen. Five years ago today, John Smith fell through the ice on Lake Saint...
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Apr 7, 2019 · BREAKTHROUGH is a must-see, entertaining, powerful, convicting, heartrending story about the real-life incident of a boy who fell through some ice and had no pulse for a longer period than any doctor thought possible when he then miraculously revived.
Apr 19, 2019 · Anyway, John and a couple of friends fall through the ice on a local lake. He is submerged for about 15 minutes, before firefighter Tommy Shine (Mike Colter), believing he hears a voice telling him exactly where to look, pulls the boy out of the water. You get one guess as to where Tommy, a proclaimed atheist, is last seen in the movie.
