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Director of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare Chris Newman praises Tracey Johnson who leapt into a crocodile enclosure at the family's zoo to rescue a child who was thrown in. Mr Newman confirmed Ms Johnson did not suffer any injuries and added: "Knowing Tracey, it's absolutely what I would expect her to do. It's incredibly heroic what she did." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Yesterday there was an incident yesterday afternoon. It was it seems to be a
00:05vulnerable adult who had two carers with him and somehow there seems to be an
00:09incident with a child and that child was somehow ended up in the crocodile
00:15enclosure. I don't know if the crocodiles were involved. I know the facility very
00:20well so the injuries that I've heard so far are described by the police are
00:25very consistent with what I would expect in terms of falling onto the concrete
00:28rim that surrounds the pond so whether he fell into that those are what caused
00:33the injury and then has he rolled into the water probably would. Has a crocodile
00:37been directly involved at this stage I don't I can't answer that question I
00:40don't know. But you're aware that Tracy did jump into the enclosure? I wasn't aware until yesterday evening when I
00:48saw that information come out and I immediately text just to make sure that she was
00:54fine and she she's absolutely fine she's got no injuries. I mean knowing Tracy it's
00:58absolutely what I'd expect her to do she would certainly put her life in jeopardy
01:02for a child I mean it's incredibly heroic what she did.
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