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While on vacation in Georgia, Pete saved a boy who was drowning in the motel pool. The story was written up in the local paper:

A 3-year-old Macon boy who fell into a motel swimming pool in Atlanta Monday afternoon was saved from drowning by two bystanders, police said. The child, identified as Si Simmons, was seen floating face down in the pool at Holiday Inn, 1810 Howell Mill Road, by Pete Van Deusen of Fairfield, New Jersey, who jumped in and hauled the boy out. A physician who examined the boy, said he would recover.

A 30 second interview with Pete was broadcast on local television in Georgia and a VHS copy of the interview exists.