Crowd catches children jumping from burning apartment - GIF

[Altair]

Crowd catches children jumping from burning apartment.




Previously:

Men save old man from burning apartment - GIF
Firefighter snatches suicide jumper mid-air - GIF
Man scales building to save child - GIF
Firefighter bravely puts out fire to save trapped couple - GIF
Firefighting stretcher evacuation technique - GIF

[Frank S]

not jumping from, being dropped from the window into the arms of those below.

[mwmkravchenko]

not jumping from, being dropped from the window into the arms of those below.

The second person did jump. Sat in the window and took the leap.

Not something I would want to do. But better than burning I think.

[Fluffle-Valve]

The alternative is to be burnt alive or die from smoke inhalation. Not much of a choice, but given the situation, I would jump.

[mccwho]

WOW, that was a big drop. Could not accurately calculate the drop time from the video. But they were falling for at just over 1 second. That would put their speed more than 34 ft/sec. or 23.1818 mph. Given the apparent size of the kids, that would have been quite a substantial amount of momentum. Kudos to those people for catching or at least slowing their decent so they could survive the fall!!!