The 21-year-old hero used a hammer to smash the wall, saving 3 people from a fire in Hanoi

On the morning of May 24, at house number 1, alley 43/98/31 Trung Kinh, Trung Hoa ward, Cau Giay district, Hanoi, a serious fire occurred, leaving 14 people gone forever and many injured.

As one of the people involved in rescuing people, Mr. Hoang Tuan (21 years old, from Nam Dinh, a student renting a room near the house where the fire broke out) was still scared and said that at nearly 1:00 a.m., he heard screams. "fire" from the neighbor's house.

Knowing something bad was going on, he quickly ran out and saw that the fire had engulfed the house next door, making access extremely difficult. At this time, in the 2-storey house, 1 tum located next to the gate of house number 1, alley 31, alley 98, alley 43 Trung Kinh (Cau Giay, Hanoi), there were many calls for help.

After a moment of observation, Mr. Tuan and two other people saw that there was only one way to approach this house, adjacent to the next house. This way could be climbed up to save people. After that, Mr. Tuan and two other people used a ladder to climb up to the second floor window of the house and used a hammer to smash the wall so that the trapped victims could escape.

"Seeing that there was only one way left that was not surrounded by fire, I and two other brothers climbed up the ladder and broke through the wall of the house," Mr. Tuan said, saying that after breaking through the wall, three people came out one after another. . After saving 3 people, the fire broke out so fiercely that all efforts to save the next people were hopeless.

At this time, everyone was helpless before the cries for help from those still stuck on the rooftop. "The fire broke out in a few minutes, the authorities arrived at the scene. However, the house where the fire broke out is located deep in the alley, so rescuing, rescuing and extinguishing the fire faced many difficulties," Mr. Tuan said. .

The young man's brave action received praise and many thanks from the online community. "Really respectful! Thank you and admire your courage very much, thanks to which you saved 3 people from death", GL account shared.

"Just holding a sledgehammer with two hands is tiring enough, let alone having to hold on with one hand like that, thank you hero. Very admirable and admirable, in times of danger you are still ready to save people," another friend shared.

Before that, at about 0:30 on May 24, a 5-story boarding house at alley 119 Trung Kinh, Trung Hoa ward, Cau Giay district caught fire fiercely. Witnesses at the scene said the fire broke out very quickly with many explosions. The house that caught fire is being rented out with the first floor being used for business and repair of electric bicycles.

About 10 minutes later, the Fire Fighting and Rescue Police Team of Area 2 - Room PC07 arrived at the scene. Because the alley was small, the burning house was about 200m from Trung Kinh street, so Hoai An quickly ran out to lead the way for firefighters to pull the water pipe in to put out the fire.

When the fire police approached the scene, the fire burned motorbikes, bicycles, and electric bicycles left on the field; The steel frame and corrugated iron roof covering the front yard have collapsed. The fire spread and developed strongly along the vertical axis from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor and horizontally along the first floor rooms. Black smoke and toxic gases covered the entire roof, stairs and corridors on all floors. .

At around 3:00 a.m., records at the scene showed that the authorities had taken many victims out on stretchers. At 4:30 a.m. on the same day, a representative of the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Department of Hanoi City Police said that the rescue work had been completed.

At 5:00 a.m. on the same day, according to initial statistics, 14 people who did not survive the scene were taken out of the burned house to the Transport Hospital.

Early on the morning of May 24, talking to the press, the leader of Cau Giay District People's Committee said that immediately after receiving the information, the district mobilized fire prevention, fighting, rescue and relief forces.

Chairman of the People's Committee of Trung Hoa ward directed the ward police force, the ward fire prevention and rescue team, and the grassroots fire protection and civil defense team to immediately be present at the fire location; Use firefighting equipment from public firefighting points and surrounding households to coordinate fire handling. The surrounding people and the homeowner broke the window of the 2nd floor of the 2-story house to let 4 people escape.

Hanoi city leaders directed relevant departments and branches to coordinate with the People's Committee of Cau Giay district to organize visits and encouragement for the families of victims and overcome the consequences after the fire with the amount of 50 million VND for victims. those who did not survive, 30 million VND for the injured. Support is provided in the morning 24/5.

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