GILROY, Calif. - First responders in Santa Clara County, on Monday, got a chance to meet the family of a 3-year-old they helped save from drowning. And the family got a chance to express their gratitude.

BBQ tragedy

The incident happened July 5th. Anthony Pettinari, who was actually a month shy of his third birthday at the time, was with his family at a friend's barbecue near Gilroy.

Anthony, somehow slipped away when their backs were turned. His family believes he saw the covered, above-ground pool and thought it was a trampoline. Friend Eddie Garza was the one to find him.

"I started to say there's no way he can be in there and by the time I say ‘can,’ Eddie ripped the cover off the pool and I saw Anthony on the bottom and jumped in and grabbed him," says Anthony's father, Tim Pett

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