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A true hero saved a whole family from a fire in Paris
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That's a hero alright
Fousseynou Cissé is going to be decorated by the Interior Minister for "Act of Courage and Dedication".
At least they can do... I wish him a long lasting healthy life!!!
How about act of Human. Seems like that’s an honor in itself given that not a lot of people know how to act like this nowadays.
I don't disagree, but honestly, I don't know if I physically could make myself crawl out on that ledge and I dont know very many people with certainty who could.
I like to think I would have done the same, but do we really know until we're in front of that ledge?
What that man did was superhuman.
I nearly fell from here on the end of my phone. Wow
That hero deserves a key to the city! Great job looking out for others.
Damn when they panned down to show the drop my legs did that thing
My belly did the thing the legs do 😭
My nuts did the same thing
Haha love this. I also feel vertigo in that area when it's a real doozie.
Vertigo in that area 😂
Yeah, mine has glaucoma.
There is some special parsley for that
That's true, saw it when I bounced my way in to Tegriddy farms for my medicine on my over enlarged nutsack. Rode it like a yoga ball, butt attached. The Jar said "Glaucoma" right next to mine that read "hemroids"
I feel like maybe you should get that checked out. Perhaps a couple more creams, and throw in a pill? I’d say add a shot too but not with your mode of transportation, that seems risky.
LMAO 😂
Once you fall, it ain’t your problem anymore, it’s the street sweepers 🤷🏿♂️
this man really needs a big reward from the government for such heroic act
He's going to be decorated for "Act of courage and bravery" by the Minister of Interior.
But he was outside
Damn immigrant coming into the country and risking their own life to save the lives of an entire family. Who do they think they are?
He risked his life with no promises of reward. The least the government can do is step up for him..
This ends too soon. The yellow dress one just freezes to the wall and gets forgotten?
There's still 2 women at that point, I suspect they stand still so the man can get thrive the window to help the elder up and through. The younger one is behind the one in the yellow, and looks to be helping her. There's no telling how much weight the bend of the ledge can handle with heat weakening it. It's also smarter to have the strongest member inside the house to help the oldest get through. Though I feel you on ending too soon.
That's a good point. I was wondering why they didn't exit to the ledge since it looked safer than the apartment -- since even a weak human gets a lot of leverage off a window frame, unless it is very superficially installed. But with small kids, elderly, anti-theft windows, and that, it might just have been worse. Or, understandably, they might have frozen up, too.
Yeah there are a few variables... too many extremely young ones to get across the ledge alone, many small bodies that wouldnt have been able to climb out as well... I'm not sure many would think about the ledge weight in such a situation, but a person flipping over the window and falling, that's probably a concern for the adults. Freezing is a possibility, possibly why the woman has her arms under the elders.
I'm afraid of heights sometimes -- and I've taught enough people to work in a ladder situation that I know everyone is. It occasionally (rarely) hits you after you've been doing it for years, and you start shaking, full body, for a few minutes. Like just once every couple years, but it's a weird brain glitch. Being scared isn't even the trigger if you are used to heights, afaict. I don't think it hits in these situations, because I think sufficient adrenaline suppresses it, and all height fear responses, but I might easily be wrong.
Howeber it seems more likely she sort of froze, given they weren't trying to knock out the window. Which I don't do, so far, in these situations, but will probably experience one day, and am dreading.
Watching yourself lock up while le you are internally screaming at yourself to do something seems absolutely awful.
Panic is not the best for decision making, the army runs training to force you to think through panic responses... But if you finish that training and watch a bunch of people at the start.... Its actually kinda crazy. Panic is the brains glitch to make you do something, just as freeze responses are too protect your brain in a high intensity situation. Adrenaline is another tool, it allows the body to transcend the safe limits of itself, but it also plays in the individual fight/flight/freeze responses. If you point a gun at most on a street, they will either either freeze or turn and run.. They can't tell you why, why they didnt see the car next to them. Someone whose been in combat will reach for their own weapon, and scan for cover. It's a matter of experience making you think rationally vrs the natural panic state. Likely they merely saw the window and climbed, it never occurred to them to break it to get people out faster.
I'm afraid of human built heights, I would happily free climb a cliff over and over... But if you put me in a building and I look down, my stomach drops. Same with ladders, I can go up and down but I'm tense and anxious, my brain starts fixating on the load the bars can handle, the likelihood of it slipping, etc.
You probably know this, but if you are on a ladder and start to feel that fear, try pressing your inner thighs, inner hipjoints, and lower abdomen into the ladder when you feel it come on. Pressure there sort of automatically calms you down, and as long as you don't need to go over the ladder you can do it while continuing to work, and no one will even notice. It just looks like (and is!) a good leverage lean.
Wrt combat I've heard that, but I have no idea. In a dangerous situation I usually relax my shoulders and spine to point I never do normally, and try to manipulate the situation. Sort of an extended version of "pretend you don't see the person following you, until you are in a video area" before ubiquitous video.
However if it's a situation where someone is already in control, I either talk to them (if their orders are very stupid, and I'm sure I have sufficient experience to judge that, and more than them, which falls under manipulation) or just relay their instructions -- there's basically no situation where two sets of instructions help anyone. And usually if someone else is giving instructions they know more than me. (Which is a little wierd, like, whydoesn't everyone just start calculating what needs to happen to improve odds? But I guess the clear-calm isn't the most automatic response)
I have noticed I'm incredibly stupid in these situations. Like, I'm an absolute genius as well, in a way I never normally am, but I'm absolutely blind wrt new-to-me ideas or certain places a normal me would (I hope) adjust. Which is another reason I try to defer judgement in them to someone else, especially anyone who has any training.
I can't really fathom the first response being to reach for a weapon, because for me it is always to show calm, try to unset an antagonist, or calm an ally to get them to do what needs to be done without panicking (which, wierdly, means I know a lot of people have different responses. But the concept of people is sort of abstract in that state, they are more calculations -- even authorities I am solidly following). Irl, of course, in a larger situation it's usually a couple of us "aware" folks splitting responsibilities with only the most bare bones communication -- you never waste time with discussion. Or, ideally, someone with experience who makes calls we then interpret. But I've definitely done it in situations where we share authority and if anyone else in the group states a decision we go by it. If that makes sense? You never argue.)
For the record with me this is like 5% cptsd (which who doesn't have? Life is life, even with the best care) and 95% being a stupidly nervous person, just from chemicals in my brain, I think.
But I'm not sure what other responses are like. (I can also get very angry in that state, but it's just a feeling in my stomach and forearms -- it also feels very abstract -- like any other emotion theree). I think I just might have gotten over freezing as a baby, before 2, when you develop memory (though mine start at 2 1/2, for complex memory I can date) , just from having pneumonia repeatedly. Not being able to breathe because your lungs just aren't working is absolutely terrifying, and you can't talk or communicate because lungs -- from my memories after 2 1/2. But the worst bouts were before that, I think.
It sounds like you did combat training? What was your reaction to high adrenaline situations before and after?
Also, why man made heights? For me mountains and cliffs are, if anything, worse, especially if potentially no one has traversed the spot since the last washout. But I haven't been on man made structures in intense weather, etc. Just for normal stuff. And as a kid I remember a weather tower, once I got to the main room -- I could not handle the sway long enough to look out a window.
And I hate airplanes, weather is goddamn terrifying.
I think it's a matter of trusting my own skills over trusting a building that's created by man due to early experience with unstable structures. I grew up in very poor areas, where buildings were often what id now say need to be condemned. I've fallen through floors, I've seen people lean against a rail and fall off a building... That sort of experience does a lot to your sense of trust. As does experiencing natural disasters at a young age. Where as when I was on a cliff face, I can feel the shift and strength of stone. Rationally its not the most logical fear, and there's every chance of hitting a loose stone that I'm rationally aware of. In my experience, it's been my own instincts that have kept me alive in some very rough situations, starting from a very young age.
As far s before and after... I'm not sure I'm the best judge for that question.. Not because I'm special or anything... But rather because growing up in the environment I did came with a lot of experiences most in 1st world nations don't experience. One of my earliest memories was of bullets coming through the kitchen, my mother diving for my brother and running from the room while I stood there watching the wall break from the bullets. I just felt anger, and thought if i stay still there's less chance that will be my head. I was aware at maybe 5 that I couldn't rely on adults to protect me and my thought process grew in that certainty.
To me violence was the reality, there was no rhythm to it and so my responses where wired early to respond with my own survival in my own hands. I would say the army made me more team oriented, and yes, to respond to a direct threat with reaching for a weapon. That's still true, I had a young man pull a gun, a few years ago at work.. my first reaction was reaching for my own which I didn't have, and my second thought was keeping him aimed at me to protect the children in the store.
Maybe the military did that as well, an automatic acceptance of personal harm to protect another in limited circumstances..My first response when a conflict is getting tense is to stop the escalation but if violence breaks out, it turns quickly to mitigating the threat. I'm faster to respond to threats to others, but that impulse was present when I was young to a lesser extent... Mostly id say it made me appreciate and protect peace, it gave me skills in emergencies such as providing medical aid. It strengthened my protective and analytical abilities under pressure, and to calculate risk more realistically if that makes sense. I prioritize well in emergencies, and that list of whats important was the army... I'm not sure how better to explain it. I was just 16 when I went into the army, you could say there's little before and after in my development.
Agh, I'm sorry about those experiences growing up. Kids should, if possible, have more security, especially physically, to let them grow and take risks in their own time. At least to more of a degree than that.
The building thing makes sense. I grew up with fairly reliable buildings, if they weren't forbidden to us kids, but all our bedrock was shale. And once you feel shale move it's far too late -- you can coast down the slide, if you are climbing it like kids climb shale, but if you are treating it like a secure anything you are screwed.
I think that wider ledge is slanted down
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This is true, personally I feel this was very well done all together, particularly with so many young ones. I can't fault the older one's for more care on that ledge, they aren't really designed to act as walk ways for multiple adults at once. Provided the last two adults didn't fall, such a situation with no casualties is beyond well executed. Passing a struggling, terror stricken infant with smoke inhalation is not an easy feat even when you're not at risk of plummeting from the top of a building. I would be interested to read the after math though, hopefully all the residents evacuated successfully with no long term damage from the smoke.
They definitely get props from me for just the kids getting to safety.
I saw the end on another post, they all make it through the window
Immigrants and those of African ancestry get so much flack in France, this is nice to see
So many of the rescue videos from France feature immigrants of African descent. Like the one with the toddler dangling from the ledge and the dude who climbed up the building like fucking Spiderman and saved him.
Because they are poor, and poor people have higher chances to live in hazardous appartments.
No mandatory smoke detector, no regular maintenance, overcrowded, electrical circuit not following the code.
White rich Parisians dudes don't have to save babies, the appartments in their neighborhood don't burn.
😂
Because they dont help them assimilate.
That’s a very big part of it for sure
I love heroes!
A true hero!
Thats a true hero!
Give that man a citizenship if he hasnt one already or is an immigrant. This is the type of citizen you would want in your country
May God bless this man 🙏🏻
A true Hero will wear a long dress but make it look the manliest of full plate armor!
What a amazing man.
Nice job. Little confusing at the end. The other 2 women looked frozen. I imagine he went back out and got them.
My legs, my legs after I saw the height. Definitely a hero 🦸
I see my husband in a few of his gestures.. there’s delay handing out a child his hands flap like c’mon get over her already … he is obviously talking.. but very calmly .. and just focusing on the rescue… that man was not doing this for hero creds… he was just doing what needed to be done (all hail Law Roach).
Un héros, un vrai, probablement en train de se chier dessus mais aussi en train de sauver des vies, c'est putain de beau
Aight that’s a hero
Legend
A true hero!
The adrenaline going through these poor people must have been nuts.
Legend !!’
This is what I`ve said
Not all heroes wear capes
Also: Not all churros need plates
damn how many kids are there?
Two families took refuge in the apartment. There were six people inside.
ah got it
Poor family hope they recover after this. and Kudos to the man who save them. God bless you all
Love and courage are a serious thing!
Holy hell what a hero!!!
Jesus Christ how many people were living in that flat?! Looked like a magician with the endless handkerchief.
Happy everyone is ok and cheers to the lad risking his life to help.
Two families took refuge in that apartment after their own apartment got too dangerous
Two families took refuge in that apartment after their own apartment got too dangerous
GANG
Don't forget the heroic act of filming!
The women filming were on the phone with the emergencies services.
Somebody cutting onions in here?
Good reason not to have too many kids...
Fair play to him in all seriousness.
They jerk chicken be cookin
The parents could have done this themselves.
A bunch of young kids, including toddlers, walk across that ledge and climb a window without adult aid.. Or the part when the adult helps them out of the window without them all plummeting to their demise? I suppose that when your in this situation, you will wave your neighbors away and say no no, I got it.. Sorry to inconvenience you with my family climbing though your window though!
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