For the Broomes family of Rock Close, Wildey, St Michael, God comes first.
But today, running a close second, is local boy Dionn Parris.
It was his quick thinking and strength that saved 57-year-old Patricia Broomes from a watery death in a seven-foot deep water well.
Broomes, who is nursing multiple abrasions about her body and injuries to various tendons in her back and shoulders, recounted she was walking by the Wildey Community Centre on Friday afternoon, when she felt herself falling.
She had stepped on an iron slab, with the intention of climbing the steps of the community centre to watch youngsters in her charge ride their bicycles.
“And I just fell in and the iron slab went down inside. . . . There was a blue pipe in the hole and all I could do was hold on ’pon that,” she said, wincing in pain.
All that time the three-year-old boy, who was with her, yelled for her nephew who raised the alarm.
Without a second thought Parris, who was watching football on the field, leapt into action.
