South Korea: Mother, 3 children fall from burning building in incredible escape

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Mother, 3 children fall from burning building in incredible escape

By Paula Hancocks and Tim Hume, CNN

(CNN)The scenario, captured in mobile phone footage, is a mother's nightmare.

On the fourth story of a burning building in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, a woman dangles her baby out the window as smoke billows from two floors below.

Onlookers scream and wave their hands as the 30-year-old mother holds out the terrified infant -- the child's legs kicking furiously -- before dropping her to the crowd.

Full story: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/03/asia/south-korea-fire-rescue/

-- CNN 2016-05-04

[NeverSure]

Wow. Good job.

[Pimay1]

Great story.

[Morch]

Hard to imagine what it felt like dropping her baby like that.

Happy endings rule.

[timendres]

Ah, CNN, the modern press, and their hyperbole - miraculous, terrifying, remarkably unaffected...

This procedure was SOP for firefighters for decades. I bet the kids would do it again, if you asked them! (minus the smoke and flames, of course) Thank goodness for the army soldiers who did not stand around with their thumbs up their a__ waiting for the authorities, but instead took decisive action. A happy ending that can renew people's faith in each other.