Neighbors save two children who jumped from burning building

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"I wasn't thinking about injuries, I was thinking about the children."   After two children jumped out of a building in flames, neighbors saved them by catching them in their arms. Walid is one of them, and told us what happened.

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00:00We were screaming, we were shouting, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

00:04We got together, we got together.

00:06And there, the child fell.

00:09We held him, we stretched out our arms to receive him.

00:14And everyone in the neighborhood that was there,

00:19they were still shouting at the other child,

00:22go, jump, jump, jump, jump.

00:24With a lot of courage, I salute the children

00:28He was the last one who was brave enough to send the kid first, and then himself.

00:39We saved his life, and I feel so proud.

00:44I'm totally moved.

00:49These are lives. I couldn't believe what happened.

00:53When I watched the video, I didn't sleep at all last night.

00:58It wasn't a problem, but psychologically, it was stronger.

01:03It was stronger to think that we saved two lives.

01:07We broke our arms and fingers. It doesn't mean anything at all.

01:11Here, the injuries will go away in two or three weeks.

01:18But the kids will stay here, and it will stay in the memory of all the people who were there.

01:48We wanted to break the door to get in, and it didn't work.

01:54But we went back downstairs, and the idea was to make them jump,

02:01and put us downstairs to receive them.

02:04They didn't have any injuries.

02:07In any case, not serious, not at all, because they didn't touch the ground.

02:11But we were there to receive them.

02:14Me and another one, we broke our wrists.

02:18Another one also broke his thumb.

02:21We wanted to save lives, and we saved them.

02:24I didn't even feel the injury.

02:32I got injured in the first child,

02:37but I got in to receive the second one.

02:39But I didn't think about the injuries.

02:42What I thought about was the lives of the children.

02:47I'm proud of the solidarity we put in the whole neighbourhood,

02:53the participants and the people who were there to encourage the children to jump,

02:58because it wasn't a decision of little children.

03:01Jumping in a building that's about 15 metres high is very high,

03:08but compared to the fire, they gave us confidence.

03:12They believed in us,

03:15so they made the right decision for their lives.

03:21They are the heroes.

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