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Five quick-thinking boys are being hailed as heroes for rescuing a screaming eight-year-old child dangling from a chairlift at Grouse Mountain ski resort in North Vancouver.

Video obtained by Global News shows a group of boys in action as they grab a piece of orange netting used as fencing and rush beneath the ski lift while a man above clings to the boy as he hangs from the chair.

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Twelve-year-old Joshua Ravensbergen said he and his buddies are home schooled and went to Grouse Mountain for a day of skiing when they looked up and noticed a boy in trouble.

“People were there but they were just standing looking at the kid, not knowing what to do,” he said, adding he feared the child would be injured if they didn’t do something to help.

Ravensbergen said one of the boys in the group pointed to a fence and they all rushed to grab it and hold it under the chairlift.

He said the boy appeared to have fallen from the chair moments earlier and was left hanging, but it wasn’t stopped and kept going higher and higher so it was too late for him to jump to safety.