When I covered the Atlantic City crime beat for the A.C. Press, there was a two-month run when I saw seven jumpers. Long story. Too long to delve into right now. Catch me at a bar and we’ll rap. But anyway, that’s why this video from Xining, China caught my eye. Because it wasn’t that of a jumper. It was that of a jumper getting kicked back in the window, saving his life and that of the baby he was holding.
At 14:47 on the 16th, Xining City Police Fire Brigade 119 command center received a public warning, the summer capital Avenue, Seongdong-gu, a district, a man want to suicide due to family disputes.
Embrace a two-year-old child about this man, sitting in their own bedroom windowsill, legs out of the window, was very emotional after the fire in the present.
Fire officers and soldiers Seeing immediately launched the rescue operation, and quickly laying downstairs rescue cushions, mattresses, bedding and cushions placed on the second floor platform.
At the same time, two firefighters from the building to the east of the windows into the living room, waiting for rescue opportunity. 15:54, all the preparatory work is ready, a fireman jumped down from the 6th floor window, the suicide man flying kick “kick” into the bedroom.
Advance into the living room of the two firefighters immediately broke in the control of this man was successfully rescued child hanging by a thread.