Water rescue teams saved three children who got trapped in a creek.
It happened around 1:30 p.m. along Partridge Lane in Raleigh.
Mike Kallam noticed the three kids playing in Marsh Creek. He said he warned them that it wasn't safe to do that, but they continued.
Three children got trapped, clinging to a tree, in a fast-moving creek in Raleigh.
Several minutes later, he said he heard screaming.
He rushed outside his home and saw the three kids trapped, holding onto a tree as fast-moving water rushed past them and made it impossible to get to them.
"Unnerving, not to be able to do something. Because here I am 15 feet away from them and I can't reach them," Kallam said. "There's no way to get to them and no way to get some help."
Fortunately, there was help on the way. The neighbor and his wife called 911 and swift water rescue teams arrived to help.
They put a boat in the shallow, but fast-moving water and paddled out to the children. They then put them into the boat and pulled them to safety.
None of the kids were injured.
The kids -- Kelly, Evelyn, Emma, Gavin and Andrew (ranging in age from 8-12 -- said they stopped while riding their bikes to try and cross the creek. But once two of them got across, the other three were stuck on the wet and slick rocks.
"Andrew, Evie and me, we couldn't get across," Kelly described. "Andrew held on to a branch and then it snapped. So he fell down, and like, he slid down and he held on to, like, a tree trunk."
The children described being very scared too.
"When it was happening, it was really really scary," Evelyn said. "There were like rocks and sticks hitting our feet...right as she was about to slip off, the people grabbed her."
