When firefighters entered a burning flat on Wednesday, they followed the sounds of screams for help and located a family hiding in a bedroom in their five-room unit. One of the firefighters, Sergeant(3) Rafiqi Hilman, 25, saw a couple and their three children - a...
Meanwhile, Staff Sergeant Ahmed Haliim Khan, 33, was trying to calm down the frantic father and convince him to hand over his two-year-old son.He noticed the man was struggling to breathe and immediately gave his personal compressed air supply to him outside the lift lobby.Inside the flat, rota commander Lieutenant Teo Kang Xiang, 28, used a thermal imaging device to locate the source of the fire.
Commander of Sengkang Fire Station, Major Muhamad Othman Sharif, 31, said the family was out within 15 minutes and the fire was under control. He commended the family for their quick thinking in distancing themselves from the blaze and staying together, while trying to get the attention of passers-by from their bedroom window.
He added: ““We worked fast, and we knew our firefighters relied on each other to ensure that the operation could be done well.”Staff Sergeant Ahmed, who has two sons, a two-year-old and a six-month-old, was grateful when he got home late and hugged his children. He said: “How I carried the boy out of the fire was how I carried my sons, and it made me treasure my family so much more.”
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