Mrluvaluva
22-07-2009, 04:22 PM
A woman and her two children were rescued from their burning car by two off duty firefighters in the US city of Milwaukee.
The accident happened when the car hit a tree and flipped over, trapping the passengers inside.
Amateur video shows brothers Joel and John Rechlitz carrying out the rescue after they were called to help by their wives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMros2N1wQU
The two men used pipes to break the car's windscreen while the crowd helped pull the woman and her two-year-old daughter to safety.
But her son David Harper remained trapped in his car seat behind a wall of flames.
The four-year-old boy was cut free by the firemen and was taken to hospital where he is in a critical condition after suffering burns to 30% of his body.
Joel Rechlitz described the events and said "once you see a burning child... firefighter or not, you are going to do whatever you can to save that child."
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8161098.stm)
The accident happened when the car hit a tree and flipped over, trapping the passengers inside.
Amateur video shows brothers Joel and John Rechlitz carrying out the rescue after they were called to help by their wives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMros2N1wQU
The two men used pipes to break the car's windscreen while the crowd helped pull the woman and her two-year-old daughter to safety.
But her son David Harper remained trapped in his car seat behind a wall of flames.
The four-year-old boy was cut free by the firemen and was taken to hospital where he is in a critical condition after suffering burns to 30% of his body.
Joel Rechlitz described the events and said "once you see a burning child... firefighter or not, you are going to do whatever you can to save that child."
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8161098.stm)