New England cable technicians hailed for heroic save of wandering toddler in frigid weather
New England cable technicians hailed for heroic save of wandering toddler in frigid weather By M.L. NESTEL Two utility workers who grew up together in Massachusetts are being hailed as heroes after guiding to warmth and safety a diaper-clad 2-year-old girl who managed to wander into car traffic during bitter cold weather. "This poor girl--I think it was around 3 degrees [Farenheit] or so on the thermometer," Shawn Bronson, 44, told ABC News. "She had nothing on but a diaper." Bronson was seated in Michael Payne's Comcast cable truck while his was in an auto shop being worked on two days ago. And as they were driving along Main Street around 2:30 p.m. between two different service jobs in their hometown of Monson, Massachusetts they noticed the toddler trying to cross the state highway, and were alarmed because there wasn't a parent anywhere nearby. "We both looked at each other and said 'Is that?' and 'Can you believ...