Detroit boy, ten, saves his little brother from drowning

Jacob O’Connor, from Roseville, pulled his little brother out of a swimming pool
He performed resuscitation technique he learned from the hit film, San Andreas
Jacob says he learned the life saving method from Dwayne Johnson’s character
Johnson praised Detroit, Michigan, boy boy as a hero to his millions of followers

By Jay Akbar For Mailonline

Published: 15:52 BST, 25 August 2017 | Updated: 15:54 BST, 25 August 2017

Dwayne Johnson has hailed a ten-year-old Detroit boy as a hero after he recreated one of his scenes to rescue his two-year-old brother from drowning.

Jacob O’Connor, from Roseville, walked into the back yard to find his two-year-old brother Dylan face down in the swimming pool.

He immediately pulled him out and gave him emergency care, having watched Johnson’s helicopter pilot character do the same in hit apocalypse flick San Andreas.

Dwayne Johnson has hailed ten-year-old Detroit boy Jacob O'Connor (pictured) as a hero after he recreated one of his scenes to rescue his two-year-old brother from drowning

Dwayne Johnson has hailed ten-year-old Detroit boy Jacob O’Connor (pictured) as a hero after he recreated one of his scenes to rescue his two-year-old brother from drowning

Jacob pulled him out and gave him emergency care, having watched Johnson's helicopter pilot character do the same in hit apocalypse flick San Andreas

Jacob pulled him out and gave him emergency care, having watched Johnson’s helicopter pilot character do the same in hit apocalypse flick San Andreas

‘Amazing boy,’ Johnson later tweeted to his 11million followers, adding: ‘What a brave (and calm) 10yr old boy in the face of that heightened distress.’

Jacob was sitting on his grandmother Ellen Vial’s couch watching TV on July 25 when he realised the back doors were open and his brother nowhere in sight.

Dylan had managed to open the doors, walk outside and fall into the pool, WXYZ Detroit reported.

Vial knew something was horribly wrong when she saw Dylan lying there motionless, saying: I looked in his eyes and his eyes were up in his head and not focused and that’s what really scared me.’

She rushed Dylan to the hospital, admitting she was not sure if he was going to recover.

Fortunately he was only in the hospital for a single day before he was returned back to his grandmother’s house.

Jacob later explained that he learned the life saving resuscitation technique from Johnson's character in San Andreas

Jacob later explained that he learned the life saving resuscitation technique from Johnson’s character in San Andreas

Vial has since installed double locks on her back doors to prevent a repeat incident.

Jacob later explained that he learned the life saving resuscitation technique from Johnson’s character in San Andreas.

He said: ‘There was an earthquake, then it caused a tsunami and then there was a daughter that was drowning and he had to get her out and he did the same thing.’