Dowling Catholic teen helps save woman

Kyle Werner

Des Moines Register USA TODAY NETWORK

17-year-old junior ran into burning house fire

Marek Dessimoz and his parents were at the sixth hole of the Hyperion Field Club in Johnston, playing golf to celebrate Mother’s Day, when his mother swung her club and looked up, seeing billowing smoke and rising flames from a nearby house.

Agnieszka Pieta, Dessimoz’s mother, began yelling for help, and Douglas Kaye, his father, called 911.

But Dessimoz, 17, a junior at Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines, didn’t hesitate when he sprang into action, jumping the six-foot fence that stood between him and the house on Ridgedale Court. The house’s light blue paint was blackening from the flames that began spreading to the roof above the balcony.

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