“A heroic and improvised rescue. This is how the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle described the initiative on Tuesday evening by residents of the Villeneuve district, which made it possible to avoid a tragedy. Two children aged 3 and 10, trapped in their burning apartment, miraculously escaped this fire by jumping a dozen meters into the arms of adults below their building.
A video of the scene, filmed from another building in the residence, shows their fall, impressive, from the third floor of a building whose first level, raised by pillars, already dominates the ground several meters.
# COVID19 #accident #grenoble (This Tuesday a few hours ago in the afternoon 2 children jumped out of the window to be caught by the inhabitants ❤️🙏 pic.twitter.com/xzIYpL4b3Y
- oumse-dia (@ oumsedia69) July 21, 2020Injuries among those who caught up with the children
As thick black smoke emerges from the windows of the apartment, and the inhabitants cry out in fright, we first see the oldest child hanging the youngest in the air, holding him by his clothes, before letting go. At the foot of the facade, witnesses recover him by bending under his weight and shortly after, the other child jumps into their arms.
According to firefighters, both are miraculously unharmed. They were hospitalized for inhaling fumes, like 17 other inconvenienced people in the building. On the other hand, among the witnesses who saved them, two men were injured and transported to the hospital for a suspected fracture to the forearms, add the helpers. It is not yet clear what caused the fire and where the parents were at the time of the incident.
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