Body camera video captured the rescue as officers worked to reach him while he screamed for help.
In separate incidents, several hikers and dogs got stuck and had to be rescued from icy conditions on Southern California trails this weekend.
"They were the definition, like I said, of 'my brother's keeper," the boys' mother Teghan Ivy said. "Even to their final moments, they were together."
A FedEx driver in Northern California is being recognized for his heroic actions after he jumped into a freezing river to save a woman who crashed her car.
A teenage girl who saved her brother after they both fell into a frozen lake in Ohio died, officials said.
In a pinch, the teen called her grandfather, who quickly arrived with a pickup truck and rope.