CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (WABC) -- With more heat and humidity to come in the following weeks, maybe you're planning to head to the beach, but if you are... be safe.

Two EMTs know firsthand just how quickly something can go wrong on the beach, in fact, they were just awarded for their heroic efforts last summer in Coney Island.

As soon as they turn the ignition, Mitchell Tarnapolsky and Amber Black become like guardian angels to the people on the beach.

"With us there - they're alive," Tarnapolsky said.

It was a near-death experience the FDNY EMTs drove into when two teenage boys began struggling in the Coney Island current last summer.

"At like 6 o'clock, right when the lifeguards were getting ready to go home, we heard it on the parks radio," Black said.

"Automatically, I just took

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