Children’s Escape After Russian Mother Throws Them From Window Of Blazing Fourth-Floor Apartment

 
Fire brigade spokesman Damian Bulgakov, 43, said:  “The problem for the family was that by the time they noticed the fire, it had cut off their opportunity to escape through the front door and that meant they had to use the windows.”
Mila Aksakova, 36, was captured on camera hurtling the children towards the street in a drastic bid to save them from the blaze. While the neighbours in the village of Energetic, in the Russian Republic of Baskkortostan, looked on as Vanya, four, and Natalya, 13, were launched from the window, after the apartment’s exit became cut off by flames.
The video, taken from across the road from the block of flats, shows the children tumbling towards the street, where other residents waited to catch them with taut bedsheets.


The panic mother, who was worried the sheets would not hold her weight, didn’t jump from the window.

She kept inside the flat, hoping the firefighters would reach her in time but was overcome by fumes.

Fire brigade spokesman Damian Bulgakov, 43, said:  “The problem for the family was that by the time they noticed the fire, it had cut off their opportunity to escape through the front door and that meant they had to use the windows.”