SPENCER, Iowa (KCAU) — Two boys were rescued Thursday after they got in the Little Sioux River in Spencer, authorities said. ​According to a release from the Spencer Police Department, officers and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance in the 600 block of 4th Street SE in Spencer Thursday around 5 p.m.

Authorities arrived to the scene to find two 12-year-old boys calling for help while clinging to a utility pole in the Little Sioux River. Spencer High School tennis coach and social studies teacher Evan Scheck heard the cries for help, entered the river and swam out to the children. Scheck was able to get one of the children to the shore without assistance. Authorities threw a rope with a floatation rescue disk to Scheck who then was able to get it to the second child. The child and Scheck were then pulled to shore by authorities.

A ​Spencer ambulance was called to the scene for precautionary measures but both boys escaped without injury, the release said. The police said the two boys on bicycles tried to cross a flooded walking trail near the footbridge when the river current swept them downstream.