Dramatic body camera footage shows the moment a dehydrated and disoriented teen and his pet cats are rescued by a police officer who trudged through a dense swamp in Massachusetts to find them.

“You all right, boss? You okay? Where are your cats?” Somerset Police Officer Brennan Cardoza asks the shirtless and relieved 19-year-old, according to the clip.

Cardoza then wades through a dense thicket of reeds in water up to his waist to reach the young man, who had been lost and wandering for seven hours.

“They’re right here,” the fatigued teen responds, lifting up one of his cats.

The hero cop described the treacherous terrain he battled to rescue the teen, who has not been identified by police. 

“Muddy, nasty area where you wouldn’t want to be,” Cardoza told WPRI 12.

“It was difficult to see, I had to call out for the gentleman. We were able to basically talk back and forth to each other, that was able to get me going in the right direction toward him.” 

The young man was covered with blood and cuts from the dense foliage when he was rescued, according to WJAR. 

The Somerset Police Department received a call from the missing teen’s parents on June 22, telling them that their son had been gone for hours after a walk, and that he usually didn’t stay out so long, according to a press release. 

“They were concerned because he did not normally go out for such a long period of time and he had left his cellphone behind,” police said. 

One officer stayed behind with the scared parents, another deployed a drone, while two others entered the forbidding thicket.

“The officers entered the wetlands, sinking in water that was almost up to their waists,” police said. 

The drone was programmed with a prerecorded message encouraging the lost teen to keep calling out so that officers would be able to locate him in the “thickly wooded and swampy area,” police said in the statement.  

“The drone was moved to the area and broadcast instructions to the missing person via a speaker module telling him to continue yelling out so officers could locate him,” authorities said.

They were also able to triangulate his location from a report of a nearby resident who could hear the lost man’s despairing cries for help, police said.

Officer Paul Trenholme piloted the drone while Cardoza and another officer, Detective James Cardella, bushwhacked through the overgrown vegetation. 

“Thankfully, this was successful,” Trenholme said.

An officer used the infrared capabilities of the drone to chart a safe path out of the maze-like swamp, police said, and reunite him with his family. 

“We didn’t do anything that any other police officer wouldn’t have done,” Cardoza told WPRI.