Hero delivery driver CATCHES tot hurled at him from burning house
Bartosz Bogusz, 33, then helped three older children and their mother escape the flames
A HERO neighbour caught a baby thrown from a blazing house.
Bartosz Bogusz, 33, then helped three older children and their mother escape the flames.
He had heard a smoke alarm from the house, which shares a wall with his home in Reading and saw the family trapped on the first floor.
The 33-year-old shoulder-charged a fence which bordered the gardens, flattening it, and was confronted by the terrified family looking down at him from an open window.
He urged the mum to drop the baby into his arms.
He placed the crying baby into the arms of his housemate away from the smoke and caught three more children aged 10, 11 and 17 years, before helping the mum lower herself down onto a cushioned area he had created.
Delivery driver Bartosz, who came to Britain from Poland seven years ago, said: "I was in bed, and I heard the fire alarm. I thought it might just be setting itself off.
"After a while I heard screams from over the wall.
"I went to the window and could smell the smoke, and I heard a lady calling for help. I told my housemates to call the emergency services."
“I told the lady to pass down the kids and I will catch them. I found some large green bags and got the lady to jump and land on them,” he continued.
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He added: “I’d call it a normal human thing to help. It wasn’t heroic.”
The family were treated for smoke inhalation and minor injuries. Fire crews put out the blaze at The Meadway, in Tilehurst, Reading, Berks.
A spokesman for Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service said an electrical fault with a electrical appliance was believed to be cause of the fire.
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