US servicemen catch mother and kids who fell from burning building in South Korea

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-servicemen-catch-mother-kids-who-fell-burning-building-south-korea-1558072

Quick-thinking US service personnel saved the lives of a mother and her children from a burning building in South Korea by grabbing a blanket and using it to catch them as they jumped four storeys from a window. Dramatic video footage showed the moment a mum dropped her small children into the blanket before making a leap of faith herself. Two other women were involved in the dramatic escape and all were unharmed.

The terrifying incident took place in the city of Pyeongtaek 60 km (37 miles) south of South Korea's capital Seoul on Friday (29 April). Precious Enyioko, 30, was trapped in the burning block in Songtan shopping district with her children aged four, three and seven months as smoke billowed all around. Then passing servicemen and women from nearby Osan Air Base took charge.


US Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Raimondo said he and another colleague got the blankets from a nearby shop then corralled a group to hold them beneath the window. They persuaded her to drop the first two children whom they caught but the third did not want to be dropped and started to struggle in its terrified mother's arms.