One 76-year-old Pennsylvania man owes his life to the quick actions of a nurse, her husband, and a three-legged dog after falling into the Allegheny River and very nearly drowning. Last month, the rescuers were recognized for their heroism. Nurse Mary Jo Lender, 54, from Lower Burrel, was visiting River Forest Yacht Club with her husband, Brian, 53, and they were just leaving when she noticed movement off the dock and spotted the little Pomeranian mix splashing in the brown water. “That’s what caught our attention,” Mary Jo told The Epoch Times of that June 10 incident. “I noticed a bit of an arm, flesh. “It was a person, because the water surface you couldn’t really see under. “I screamed, ‘Oh my God, there’s a person under there!’” Brian leapt in and pulled the elderly man, Tom Kissel, out from under the water. He was in “dire straits,” Mary Jo …