Fearless China boy runs back into burning home 4 times to save semi-conscious father and terrified grandmother, hailed as hero online
- Father’s screams wake boy who remained calm throughout blaze ordeal
- Flames, dense smoke fail to deter youngster who has been hailed a hero
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Brave boy enters burning house 4 times to save family
A young boy in China has been hailed as a hero after he returned to his burning home four times to save his semi-conscious father and terrified grandmother.
The boy, from Henan province in central China, identified by the pseudonym Yangyang whose age is unknown, remained calm when fire ripped through his home in the early hours of January 21.
He called the police before rushing back inside the burning house, according to iWeekly.
A video filmed by his aunt, surnamed Cui, shows Yangyang’s smoke-blackened face and hands as his grandmother, with burned hair, cries nearby.
“Were you scared of the fire?” Cui asks Yangyang, to which the boy replies: “No.”
The cause of the blaze remains unclear, but Yangyang said he was woken by his father calling for help from his bedroom. When he arrived, he found his father was semi-conscious and unable to move.