What will you do if you see a building burning with people trapped inside it? 90% will say that they will shout and pray to god to save them but nothing more than that.Another 8 to 9 % will say that they will call for help because that is the only way to save those people.It is only those 1 % who will say that they will try to save them by going inside.But truly only .01 % will really do that daring work. It is a true fact because all of us are somewhere selfish to ourselves.We want to help others but not in the crunch situations.
The story of another very ordinary man inspired to write my next post.On Thursday 24th July 2008 at 6.15 pm fire broke out on the third floor of Netaji Bhavan in Hyderabad.This house contained a part Of ING Vyasya bank's Loan divison.
At that time there were 20 employees in the office.As soon as the news broke out there was a rush in the building.Leaving three of them rest escaped while coming down from the stairs.The other three ran to the terrace thinking that they will be safe there.But soon the whole floor was engulfed in the fire.The fire tenders rushed in but as usual their stairs were not high enough to rescue those trapped on the terrace.People came from everywhere to watch the scene but they could not do any thing.suddenly Arif a passing man saw this and decided to get into the act.He was a mountaineer and decided to use his skill to save those people. He found that there was a tree nearby whose branches were reaching to the terrace.Arif got up on the ladder and holding the branches of the tree he reached to the terrace.Than he tied them with the rope he was carrying and slowly got them on the ladder through the tree. In this way he saved three not only three lives but also three families for whom otherwise the day would have turned a black day in their life.
May be for him and others it was a matter of small work but for me he is my next unsung hero.And please I request every reader to thank the tree which also played a crucial role to save the lives.
Flow of Thoughts
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