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    <p>An amazing story about a &#8220;surprising hero&#8221; has emerged in the wake of Hurricane Harvey: a 13-year-old boy from Dickinson, Texas, who reportedly used an inflatable air mattress to save 17 of his neighbors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.faithwire.com/2017/09/13/this-is-the-end-im-done-dash-cam-shows-heart-pumping-moment-hurricane-irma-sent-falling-tree-within-inches-of-crushing-womans-moving-car/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><strong>WATCH: Dash-Cam Shows Heart-Pumping Moment Hurricane Irma Sent Falling Tree Within Inches of Crushing Woman’s Moving Car</strong></em></a></p>
<p>Virgil Smith <a href="http://abc13.com/13-year-old-rescues-neighbors-on-air-mattress-/2393284/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told KTRK-TV</a> about how he jumped into action when water started pouring into his apartment complex during the hurricane. It all started after he and his mom hunkered down in a stranger&#8217;s second-floor apartment and Smith received a phone call from one of his friends in another nearby building.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was like, &#8216;VJ, can you come help us because you know that we can&#8217;t swim,'&#8221; Smith said of the phone call. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Man, I&#8217;ve got to go get them right now. I&#8217;ve got to go help my friends.'&#8221;</p>
<p>So, rather than worry about his own safety in that moment, the selfless teen ventured back to his apartment at 2 a.m., grabbed an inflatable mattress and headed outside in the midst of darkness and uncertainty to swim through the debris to the other building.</p>
<p>After he found his friend and his friend&#8217;s family members, he and two other neighbors loaded them onto the mattress and pushed it back to Smith&#8217;s apartment building.</p>
<p>&#8220;I put him, his two sisters, one baby and his brother, and I had my other friend by the hand right here,&#8221; Smith <a href="http://abc13.com/13-year-old-rescues-neighbors-on-air-mattress-/2393284/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recounted</a>. &#8220;And I set his momma and his step-dad on the air mattress.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the heroism didn&#8217;t end there, as Smith went back and helped rescue others as well, including a woman who was in a wheelchair. His mom, Lisa Wallace, said her faith got her through as she watched her son in action.</p>
<p>&#8220;All I&#8217;m thinking about is &#8216;I know he&#8217;s able to save. He can rescue, he can swim,'&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I just had faith in the Lord that everything was gonna be alright.&#8221;</p>
<p>Listen to the teen tell the amazing story below:</p>
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