EAGLE MOUNTAIN – A 12-year-old Eagle Mountain boy is home and recovering after a terrifying near-drowning incident that nearly claimed his life.

On May 23, Jason Thorpe and his friends were playing in a neighbor’s hot tub.

Helena Class-Alexander, whose home the children had been swimming at, said she and her husband were watching the kids when they noticed something was off, as they stopped seeing Jason above the water surface.

“I asked my son, ‘Where is Jason?’ and Aiden said he was holding his breath for five minutes,” Class-Alexander said. “My husband beelined it over to the hot tub to tell him to knock it off because it’s not a safe game to play, and he literally pulled Jason out of the hot tub, and he was totally unresponsive.”

Class-Alexander, a nurse practitioner, and her husba

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