Oswego, Ill. — On Tuesday, June 10, the Village of Oswego Police honored Oswego East High School student Mason Trayser. Earlier this year, Trayser, a fifteen-year-old freshman, rescued another student from drowning and was already 12 feet underwater.
At the Village Board Meeting on Tuesday night, Trayser was the first to receive the department’s Outstanding Citizen Award. Trayser accepted the award from Chief Jason Bastin.
Trayser was also awarded the Chief’s Cross at the spring awards night at the Oswego Fire Protection District Station One on Woolley Road. There, Trayser told WSPY how he borrowed a classmate’s goggles, dove below the water and grabbed the drowning student by the wrist to pull him up. The students were in a swim class.
“I didn’t even think, but I put the goggles on, tighten them, [and] I went straight down,” Trayser told WSPY in an interview. The fire department commended Trayser’s quick thinking and taking action before first responders arrived on the scene.
