TYNGSBORO, Mass. (WHDH) - An 11-year-old girl is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a 5-year-old boy who fell into a well.

“I heard these screaming, like these screams, and someone saying, ‘Call 911,’” Juliana Fischer said.

Jack Buss was playing in the yard on Friday when his mother heard a loud band.

“I heard a scream that I’ve never heard before from my son,” Kathleen Freeman said.

Freeman soon realized her son’s screams were coming from the ground. She looked down at her neighbor’s water well that sits between the two houses and that is where she found Jack.

Jack had stepped on a well cover that gave way, sending him about 20 feet down.

Freeman was trying to console her son and stay where he could see her, so she did the only thing she could do - scream for help.

Juliana heard

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