Ural Man Catches Newborn Girl Thrown from Fourth Floor
A newborn infant is thrown from a fourth-story window in a desperate rescue attempt.
On the night of January 24, a fire broke out in one of the apartment buildings in Asbest. A family living on the fourth floor became trapped: the fire had ignited one floor below.
Acrid smoke was filling the apartment, so the father took a desperate step and threw his newborn daughter out of the window. As the man himself told E1.RU, there was no other way; if they had put a wet cloth to the baby«s face for her to breathe through, she could have gotten frostbite.
Fortunately, at that time, two men were passing by who caught the baby. The E1.RU editorial team managed to speak with one of them.
We were walking by, heard a man shouting from the window: «Help!» We approached, he says we need to catch a child. We acted on adrenaline, probably. He threw the girl, I caught her, handed her to my comrade. He took her to warmth, to the dormitory. Then another girl was taken there so they could wait for the ambulance,« Anton said.
Anton is 27 years old, he works for a company that manufactures soft furniture. His comrade is named Pavel. Anton admits that all reflections on the situation came only after he caught the child.
On adrenaline, I just caught her, it wasn«t particularly scary. Anyway, we had to act, not leave them there like that. How could we not help? The girl, surprisingly, didn»t cry, flew silently, was silent when I caught her — I was also surprised by that,« Anton added.
Read the instruction on how to act in case of a fire in an apartment building without a smoke removal system. Previously, a firefighter explained, in which houses it is most dangerous to live and who has a chance to escape from a burning apartment. For example, one of the basic rules is not to try to escape through a smoke-filled stairwell.
