Heroic teens rushed outside to save a man who had fallen on train tracks. The three young men wasted no time getting to someone who needed help. Watch the clip to see and hear about the three teenagers’ life-saving efforts.

Teenagers often get a bad rap. Many people see and think of teenagers as being out-of-control, self-centered, video-game-obsessed individuals who are always looking for ways to bring about destruction and mayhem. Of course, that is painting with a considerably broad brush, which is always a wrong move.

Some teenagers will fit and meet that very narrow description and narrative. For the most part, teenagers aren’t that way at all. That is certainly the case when talking about three Iowa teenagers who saw an elderly gentleman in distress and a potentially life-threatening situation.

In a clip posted on YouTube, three teenage boys recalled seeing an older man fall on train tracks while in class. The clip adds that the unnamed man had trouble returning to his feet. Instead of asking for permission, all three walked out of school and quickly headed to where the man had fallen.

A teacher spotted the three young men as they approached the elderly gentleman. However, by that point, the teacher admitted that they had everything covered.

“Kinda by the time I was out there, they were kind of getting to him and helping him up off his feet,” the high school science teacher said. “And then they started walking him to the bus stop and that’s about two blocks away. And I decided to take out my phone and take a picture.”

What the teacher captured with his photo was a beautiful moment of three heroic young men assisting someone in trouble.

“It was just, you know, a selfless act,” the teacher said. “They didn’t wait and ask for permission. They just said, ‘We’re doing this.’”

Philippians 2:4 “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”