<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of <i>CNN</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/asia/south-korea-fire-rescue/">http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/asia/south-korea-fire-rescue/</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 4.13333rem; margin: 10px 0px; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding: 0px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.06452; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Mother, 3 children fall from burning building in incredible escape</h1><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">(CNN) - </cite>The scenario, captured in mobile phone footage, is a mother's nightmare.</span></p></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-4 cn-zoneAdContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"></ul><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Onlookers scream and wave their hands as the 30-year-old mother holds out<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>the terrified infant -- the child's legs kicking furiously -- before dropping her to the crowd.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another child follows, then another, before the woman herself leaps from the window -- the only escape route.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Remarkably, all survived without injury Saturday, caught safely on blankets in a rescue effort orchestrated by passing U.S. service personnel stationed at nearby Osan Air Base.</span></div><div class="zn-body__read-all" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.25; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: inline-block; padding-top: 10px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3"><i>'Please just throw the baby!'</i></font></h3></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Raimondo told CNN he was walking to dinner Saturday when he saw clouds of smoke and set off in that direction.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On assessing the scene, he and a colleague discussed how to help and resolved to get some blankets from a nearby store.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They corralled others to help hold the blankets, then tried to persuade the mother to drop her children to safety.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First Sgt. Melanie Scott said the woman was understandably reluctant to let go of her children, ages 1, 3 and 4. </span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"You could tell she was scared. She didn't want to."</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Raimondo said that the "last baby was the most difficult in my eyes, she just wouldn't let her go for some reason."</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said he repeatedly begged the mother: "Please just throw the baby down!"</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I remember her screaming (at) the baby, 'I love you, I love you. ...' Next thing you know she dropped the baby."</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.25; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: inline-block; padding-top: 10px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3"><i>'You're alive!'</i></font></h3></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By this time, the mother had to jump.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The smoke and the fire was just horrendous," Raimondo said.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"You could barely even see her at that point."</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The woman fell more heavily than the children and hit the ground beneath the blanket, but someone had had the foresight to put cushions underneath it, he said.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We carried her into a safe location into a salon," he said. "I just kept yelling and talking to her, 'You're alive! You're alive!' "</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.25; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: inline-block; padding-top: 10px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3"><i>'She flew like Supergirl'</i></font></h3></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Monday, the rescued family, who hail from Nigeria, met the people who saved their lives and thanked them.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I don't know how I would explain my thanks," said the children's father, Prince Enyioko.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I was so surprised, I see the people gathering here to rescue my family, especially the military."</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Raimondo said he sat with the first child to be rescued in the aftermath Saturday and held her while her mother, suffering from smoke inhalation, sat in shock.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I let her know that she was very brave and she flew like Supergirl. She just smiled," he said.</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It was an emotional experience. The good news is they made it through alive."</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Video - Heroic US airmen save mother and children fall from burning building in incredible escape</span></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://youtu.be/ZA69F1p9Ky4">http://youtu.be/ZA69F1p9Ky4</a></span></div></div></div></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>