Chinese firefighter ‘hero’ climbs up six floors with bare hands from outside building to save girl after fall from window left her dangling perilously
- A firefighter saved his 5-year-old neighbour who was trapped hanging from a security grille outside a window of her sixth-floor home in China
- The girl had been lying on the windowsill when she fell and got stuck hanging in between the window security grilles
A firefighter in Shanxi province in central China has won praise after he climbed six floors from the outside of a building using his bare hands to save a little girl who was trapped hanging perilously from a window grille.
The rescuer, surnamed An, saved the 5-year-old girl who had been lying on a windowsill when she fell and got stuck hanging in between the security grilles last Friday.
An, a neighbour of the girl, immediately rushed to the scene after he heard the sound of a child crying in distress from his apartment.
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He said he acted without hesitation and started to climb the outside of the building one floor at a time using external security bars attached to the front of the residential block.
“She was very frightened and kept crying. I asked her not to be scared, and explained I was coming over to save her,” An told state media outlet People’s Daily.
An managed to grab hold of the security grille with one hand and take hold of the girl with the other and spent 10 minutes trying to lift her up until her mother arrived and helped pull her back into the apartment.