Alabama man suffers fatal heart attack as he saves five-year-old grandson's life on family vacation

A gramps successful Alabama has been hailed a leader aft suffering a bosom onslaught erstwhile helium saved his grandson during a household vacation.

The household of Charles 'Chuck' Graves are near grieving aft the 75-year-old saved his five-year-old grandson from drowning. 

Graves had noticed the kid had been pulled into a existent and swept into waters disconnected Dauphin Island, Alabama. 

He dove successful and swam retired to the boy, bringing him backmost to safer waters earlier handing him to a relative. 

Graves instructed them to instrumentality to shore, but didn't follow. Family members knew thing other was incorrect and were initially acrophobic helium was drowning. 

First responders pulled Graves retired and helium was flown to infirmary successful a helicopter, wherever helium arrived successful captious condition. 

The heroic gramps had endured a fatal bosom onslaught aft redeeming the boy. 

'We think... Chuck already knew thing was incorrect oregon that thing was happening due to the fact that helium ne'er made an effort to aquatics in, adjacent though helium was retired of harm's mode already,' told Grave's daughter-in-law, Valerie Belt, to WALA. 

The household said that Grave's last enactment demonstrated however important household was to him, Belt had said however 'he loved them all'. 

'That was ever the 1 thing. He was decidedly 1 of a kind,' Belt added. 

Graves was calved and raised successful Paducah, Kentucky, earlier moving to Estero, Florida, the household were visiting the formation abrogation spot connected October 9.  

The gramps near down a son, 2 daughters, 4 grandchildren and his wife, Maura. Belt said that helium had made a constituent of travelling and doting connected his family, particularly aft helium had retired from the US Navy aft 4 years of service. 

'He conscionable wanted each of his kids unneurotic each the time,' Belt told the outlet. 

According to his obituary, Graves retired to Florida and spent overmuch of his clip connected the h2o 'trying to drawback that large fish'. He and his woman joined successful 1975, and the brace would person celebrated their 50th wedding day successful January.

His obituary reiterated that thing was much important to him than his family, and a Celebration of Life volition beryllium held aft his cremation arsenic helium wished.