will james, a 16-year-old, 250-pound lineman for pulaski academy, began to falter. >> the team was doing up-downs, and will starts to stagger. and we ran from here over to here, and we caught him about right in here. ( siren wailing ) >> narrator: it was heat stroke. will was rushed to the icu at arkansas children's hospital. >> when he arrived to us, he was comatose and on the ventilator. initially, his kidneys were doing okay, but over the first 48 hours, they deteriorated, and he went into renal failure. his blood pressure was really low; it was in the 40s. his temperature was very high. he was obviously very critically ill. >> the waiting room was full of people there for will-- teammates, parents, coaches. there were media people roaming around, because not only had will collapsed from heat stroke; two days earlier, another child had, as well. >> narrator: the other boy was also a high school football player from a small town outside of little rock. his name was tyler davenport. when he arrived at the hospital, his core body temperature was 108 degrees. >> their stories were so simi