Firefighter's Quick Thinking Saves 1-Year-Old Baby Thrown from Burning Building

A firefighter rescued a baby by catching the child with a blanket after a foreign mother and her daughter were put in danger by a fire that broke out late at night in a multi-family house in Daejeon.
According to the Daejeon Dongbu Fire Station on July 9, the fire started on the third floor of a multi-family house in Gayeong-dong, Dong-gu, at 11:22 p.m. the previous day.
When firefighters arrived at the scene after receiving reports from witnesses and others, the fire had already spread to the point where red flames were shooting out of the building.
At that moment, a woman in her 20s of Vietnamese nationality was calling for help from a small bathroom window in the unit where the fire had started.
Her 1-year-old daughter was with her at the time.
Given the urgent situation with a young baby vulnerable to the fire, the firefighters on the scene determined that they could not wait for an air mat to be fully deployed.
The team decided that a swift response was necessary and opted to rescue the baby first using a blanket.
Following the instructions of the firefighters, the mother dropped the child out of the window from the third floor, and the baby was safely caught in the blanket the crew had spread out in advance.
The mother then jumped onto an air mat.
Three people, including the mother and daughter, were treated at a hospital for smoke inhalation, but it was reported that they were not seriously injured.
In addition to the mother and daughter, 15 other residents of the multi-family house evacuated in a hurry.
The fire authorities extinguished the blaze completely in 55 minutes and plan to investigate the exact cause of the fire through an on-site inspection.
(Photo courtesy of Daejeon Dongbu Fire Station, Yonhap News)
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