A 20-year-old food-delivery boy saved 10 lives during the massive fire at a Mumbai hospital that killed eight people on Monday.
Sidhu Humanabade was passing by when he saw smoke billowing out from the upper floors of the ESIC Kamgar Hospital in Andheri. He left his bike and asked the firemen if he could join them in the rescue operation.
After a nod from officials, Humanabade reached the fourth floor of the building with the help of fire brigade's ladder and rescued some stranded patients and visitors.
Braving the dense smoke that engulfed the area, Sidhu, who works for online food aggregator Swiggy, managed to bring out 10 people to safety in two hours. However, he himself choked on the smoke and is currently admitted at the nearby Seven Hills Hospital.
Speaking to PTI from his hospital bed, Humanabade said when he heard people crying for help, he could not stop himself. "I joined the firemen in their rescue operation. Thankfully, the firemen allowed me to climb their ladder to reach the fourth floor. I broke the building's glass with an axe and entered the premises."
He then asked the patients to come over to the window ledge and brought them down one by one. "One patient slipped from my hand and fell down, but fortunately she survived."
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