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TRUE STORIES - CHILDREN HEROES

POVEȘTI ADEVĂRATE - COPII EROI
STORIE VERE- BAMBINI EROI

HISTOIRES VRAIES - HÉROS D'ENFANTS

True stories that happened recently in Romania

Kids Saving Kids
ENGLISH
Emanuel, a six-year-old boy from Vutcani, Vaslui saved his younger
sisters from the burning house on the eve of Saint Nicholas.
He (6 years), Ioana (1 year and 3 months) and Amalia (3 months) were home
alone when their grandparents’ house caught fire. The parents, who worked in a
foreign country, left the three children with their grandparents to be taken care
of. On the eve of Saint Nicholas, while the kids were sleeping, the grandfather
left at dawn to chop wood in a small forest nearby and the grandmother went to
a supermarket found in the village to buy diapers.
At some point, the six-year-old got up and turned on the television. While
he was watching cartoons, he saw flames under/beneath the tv stand. The
flames totally burned the curtains and were extending to the bed. Even though
he realized the great danger, Emanuel did not overreact nor panic. He thought
about getting everyone to safety, out of the house, as fast as possible. Instead of
running to help, he acted like a big brother, thus saving the girls’ lives. The little
boy took his three months old sister in his arms and, bypassing the fire,
Emanuel entered the room where his other sister was sleeping.
With a baby in his arms and holding the other one’s hand, he went out of
the house. They walked barefoot and almost naked near a bridge where a neigh-
bor found them. She took the kids into her home and sheltered them until the
authorities showed up. The whole house burned behind the children. Other
neighbors tried to put down / extinguish the fire, using buckets of water, but un-
fortunately, they couldn’t.
For his act of bravery, the representatives of the Emergency Situations In-
spectorate from Vaslui county awarded the little boy gifts and a personalized
firefighter’s helmet.
Bistrita, April of 2015 - Another Savior Brother
Adrian Marte, an 11-year-old kid from Runcu Salvei, gave us another
lesson about heroism. He took his little brother of only 5 years out the window
to save him from the flames which completely ruled over the room they were
sleeping in. Saving his 5-year-old brother cost the 11 years old boy dearly as his
clothes were burned and his body suffered too. Adrian was taken by a SMURD