In a Twitter post, the Michigan State Police Seventh District, headquartered in Gaylord, shared two minutes of body cam footage from Trooper Nicholas Talbot, of the MSP Alpena Post, as he assisted in the rescue on Thursday.

Water flowing from the dam caught the boy in an undertow and left him clinging to the dam’s concrete base, his mother on shore and unable to reach him.

Two paid-on-call firefighters, who happened to be nearby when the boy’s sister called 911, used equipment provided by Talbot and Sgt. Bryan Jarema, also of the Alpena post, to rescue the boy.

The body cam footage shows Talbot throwing a safety rope to the boy and yelling encouragement as the boy called in distress and fought to stay afloat until Wilson Township firefighter Chris Kinsey reached him.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A photo of a phone screen, showing video captured by a police body-worn camera during a rescue at Four Mile Dam in Alpena Township last week, shows firefighter Chris Kinsey, left, swimming toward a boy caught in the Thunder Bay River.

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Alpena County: 10-year-old boy rescued from rushing waters at Four Mile Dam in Alpena Township. https://t.co/SK9jt2dEGY pic.twitter.com/Fp29bN2v3D

— MSP Seventh District (@mspnorthernmi) August 17, 2022

Not shown in the video, Kinsey swam the boy to shore as Alpena Township firefighter Jacob Ordway handled the safety rope to keep the swimmers from being swept underwater by the current.

Kinsey and Ordway were honored for the rescue at a ceremony in Alpena on Saturday.

Julie Riddle can be reached at 989-358-5693 or jriddle@thealpenanews.com. Follow her on Twitter @jriddleX.