CBS4 Exclusive: Kids Playing Pokemon Go Save Elderly Man Suffering Heat Stroke

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CORAL SPRINGS (CBSMiami) – Four kids were playing Sunday in Coral Springs, trying to capture Pokemon at Church by the Glades in the life like game.  What they found was more real than they ever could have imagined.

"We just turned around this corner here," explained 12-year-old Shelby Turner, "and we were walking and just about like here, and then we heard him go, 'Excuse me kids, hey! Help! Help!'"

Shelby and Christian Macaluso didn't know what to make of the voice coming from the bushes at the edge of a crowded church parking lot.

"We were just standing here and he was just lying right behind this concrete thing," she pointed, "He was lying right there."

"We could see a little bit of him through the bushes," added Christian.

The two got scared it was a trap.

"I really thought he was trying to lure us in to kidnap us or something," Shelby said. "I was like, 'Christian, run, run!' And we ran pretty far."

They ran all the way home, then raced back with their parents.

When Olivia Turner and another parent showed up they realized that voice in the bushes was really an 88-year-old man.

"He was barely audible and he just lifted a hand up and just barely audible," Turner said.

She realized he was in serious trouble.

"He was a very sweet man," she said. "Apparently he walks the path every day and takes a break here,  that day it just might have been too hot."

Thanks to the kids, the man got the help he needed. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital.

As for the parents, they're happy their children remembered their stranger danger lessons and learned a new lesson too.

"I'm so proud they were cautious enough that they trusted their gut instinct not to go into the bush area to find the man and as soon as they came home they told us," Turner said.

"Hopefully they'll remember this," said Christine Macaluso, Christian's mom. "Think twice, be more aware of their surrounding and helping others."

The man was brought to Broward Health Coral Springs where he's recovering with his son by his side.