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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.

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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."


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