Dramatic moment heroes climb 30ft drainpipe to save three kids from burning flat after ‘parents left them home alone’
HARROWING footage shows how hero neighbours climbed a 23ft-high drain pipe to save three young children from a raging fire after they were left home alone.
Three men scaled up the piping of a Russian building block, passing down a girl and two boys one at a time from the window of their burning third floor flat.The rescuers create a human chainCredit: Social mediaCredit: Social media Locked inside, the children aged ten and under were ready to jump from the window when the men climbed up the drain to save them.The neighbours also saved the family’s pet cat Pushok.He passed them down to Dhamal Gassoyan, 35, who said: “I saw the kids were getting ready to jump."Then I saw a cat left in the flat. So I climbed back to rescue the cat.”
The children left in the apartment in Russia's Kostroma Oblast “were all in tears" and said to have suffered from minor burns.The third man clinging to the drain was Ivan Potyomin, 35.Stanislav Smirnov, 40, grabbed the children from their apartmentOne report said the parents had "locked their children at home and went out to drink".
“A fire started in the apartment, the door could not be broken down, so the neighbours climbed to the third floor using a drain pipe," it went on.The inferno was caused when the children played with a lighter after being left home alone, said a report.One neighbour Anna Bosak said: “The poor children burned their hair. A little longer and there would have been no-one to save.”Neighbours noticed the fire and acted quickly as they knew it would take a while for firefighters to arrive.
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