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  • 7/7/2025

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Transcript
00:00Now, if you missed them over the weekend, a last chance for you to see some very impressive, very dramatic pictures from here in Paris over the weekend.
00:08This is after a fire broke out in a top floor flat in the 18th district of Paris, trapping a family of six.
00:16Their neighbour, though, climbed out, as you can see, onto the ledge to rescue them one by one.
00:21A baby and a toddler at the start, then the younger children and the adults as well.
00:25The whole event, as you can see, filmed by a neighbour the other side of the courtyard as the fire raged much lower down in the building.
00:33I think it was on the second floor, the fire.
00:34The rescuer, of course, now being held as a real hero. Let's hear from him.
00:42I came via the window and hoped there'd be enough space for my feet.
00:47I asked someone to pass me the baby and managed to catch them.
00:51I stretched out my arms like this.
00:55What?
00:56What?
00:56What?

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