"Kiernan, I give him all the credits, he jumped right in there without any hesitation," Day said in the video interview. "All of us were a great team, we all tagged along and saved those kids."

Irlbeck hailed the boys as heroes in a post on a Middletown, N.J., Facebook group.

"Not only did they stop a potentially catastrophic situation they didn’t even want anything in return," she said.