The Frost family was enjoying their annual reunion in Newport Beach, California, when their nephew, Jesse Martin, 35, called out for help. A woman on the beach couldn’t locate her 3-year-old, who she said was wearing blue swim trunks.
Martin’s uncle, Stuart Frost, 50, explained to AZ Central:
“I could see this lady down the beach with her hands on her head, just distraught. So I said to my family, ‘Let’s go help her.’ She was around like 50 people, and none of them got up to help her. It was really odd.”
As the family, about 30 people in total, began searching the beach, Frost, his twin brother Steve, and Martin saw kids digging holes in the sand around the place where the toddler had been last seen. The men began searching the holes, digging down deeper in them. That is when Martin felt the boy beneath the sand and saw his blue swim trunks. The 3-foot hole the toddler was digging had collapsed on top of him.
According to Frost, finding the boy was not the joyous moment it should have been:
“We started digging, and Jesse found this little boy, Brooks, and pulled him out. He was ash grey, he was dead. He was dead. So we pulled him out, and the mom was just beside herself.”
Despite the grim situation, the men didn’t give up hope. They administered CPR and within a minute the boy’s lips began to quiver. Within a few more minutes, he was breathing on his own and screaming for his mother.
Later, an assessment at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian showed that the little boy would be okay. Frost shared what happened in the aftermath:
“One of the neat things about the story is that later that day, the family came over and showed us a picture of him laughing and smiling and doing okay. It was truly a miracle.”