On Sunday, April 28, a fire broke out in a high-rise building in the capital of Kazakhstan. A seven-year-old boy, five-year-old twin sisters, and another two-year-old girl were rescued from the fire.
Duman Mukshev is an employee of the security company GROUP Four LLP and a 49-year-old military pensioner.
On Sunday morning, his wife woke him up and said she saw smoke coming from the neighbors’ apartment through the window.
“We live in a multi-story building, on the third floor, and the apartment on the fifth floor was on fire. I got dressed, went upstairs, and saw that a neighbor was already helping a woman. The door to the apartment was open, and smoke was pouring out. The woman was coughing heavily, vomiting, and trying to say something — ‘children, children,'” Mukushev said.
“I went outside, asked my neighbors for a wet towel, wrapped it around myself, and crawled in, turning on the flashlight on my phone. In the corner of the room, I saw a little girl in a white T-shirt, grabbed her, and ran out,” the man recalls.
The woman indicated that there were still children inside. Mukushev had already inhaled a lot of smoke, as a towel is not a gas mask. He instructed his young neighbor, helped him tie a wet towel around his face, and the neighbor carried the twins out of the apartment, one of whom was unconscious.
“The fourth child was nowhere to be seen, but people said that someone was standing in the window of the burning apartment. Then another neighbor was able to go in and pull him out. By that time, the ambulance and firefighters had arrived, and the children and the woman were taken to the hospital,” Mukushev said.
Mukushev turned out to be very modest; his colleagues did not even immediately learn about the incident—only when the news appeared in the media and began to be discussed at work did he tell them what had happened.
“As a former military man, I didn’t panic; I remembered about the wet towel and other measures. To be honest, I didn’t think about myself. I am very glad that I managed to save everyone. The children did not stay in the apartment for long, but they suffered severe poisoning. One of the girls was in intensive care on Tuesday. The other children are also still in the hospital,” said Duman.
Source: https://sptnkne.ws/mzgz
