Boy hailed as hero for saving sister

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Jacob Lorentson doesn?t consider himself a hero ? just a boy who did what any big brother would do to rescue his baby sister from drowning in the family?s back yard pool.

“I acted on instinct. I didn?t even think about it,” Jacob, 14, told reporters gathered Friday on a deck behind the family?s Eldersburg home, only feet from where his 21-month-old sister, Sarah, nearly died.

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