An Australian model and his skateboarding friend have been hailed as heroes in New York after they saved seven teenagers who fell through ice in Central Park.

Luckily for them, Australian model Ethan Turnbull, 24, and his friend Bennett Jonas, 23, were skateboarding by and saw the ice collapse.

“I think they all just panicked a little bit,” Turnbull told local television station NY1.

“They were like overwhelmed, it was so absolutely freezing cold.”

Mr Jonas said he and Mr Turnbull worked as a team to pull the teens out of the icy water.

“I went into the water, he followed me and the first two kids jumped on me and I had to get them off,” Mr Jonas said.

Turnbull told 3AW the last two teens were unconscious by the time they were pulled out.

“It was all a bit confronting, to be honest,” he said.

The teens were all pulled out safely and treated for hypothermia, with one taken to hospital.

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“He [Jonas] was just passing the kids at the end and I was just throwing them up and over the fence,” Mr Turnbull said.

Authorities were able to get to the pond within two minutes.

In a video posted to his Instagram account Mr Turnbull told journalists of the moment he realised the teens were in trouble.

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“I could see them standing on the ice as we were skating around … as we came back around, I could hear them screaming by that stage and then when we got there they were well submerged in the water,” he said.

“The guys at the back were just on top of one another … it wasn’t nice.”

He laughed off a reporter’s suggestion he and Mr Jonas were heroes.

“I think we were just right time, right place to be honest.”