BJ Medical College blaze: Nanny's presence of mind saves doctor's 2-year-old daughter after AI 171 crash
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A two-year-old girl was saved from a dangerous fire at the BJ Medical College hostel building in Ahmedabad, thanks to her mother's instinct and her nanny's quick actions. The fire had broken out after the crash of Air India flight AI 171 on Thursday.According to a TOI report, Dr Chanchal Bhandari, a cardiac anaesthetist at the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre (UNMICRC), received a call from her daughter's nanny saying that smoke was coming from their building. Without wasting time, she rushed back home on her scooter, only to be stopped at the campus gate as rescue teams battled the flames.Dr Bhandari said it was the nanny's quick thinking that saved her daughter. 'She immediately took my daughter to a higher floor to avoid the smoke. When the rescue team asked her to come down, she carefully climbed down one floor while keeping my daughter safe from the smoke,' she said.Due to the heavy smoke and flames, residents were told to jump down onto a rescue mat. 'My baby's skin had turned black because of the smoke,' Dr Bhandari said, holding back tears. Her daughter was the first to be caught safely in the mat, followed by the nanny.'I'm thankful to God and to my nanny for saving her,' she added.The child is now under observation and stable at the Civil Hospital campus, according to officials.Inputs from TOI
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Nanny Takes Charge Child Was First to Be Rescued Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel A two-year-old girl was saved from a dangerous fire at the BJ Medical College hostel building in Ahmedabad, thanks to her mother's instinct and her nanny's quick actions. The fire had broken out after the crash of Air India flight AI 171 on to a TOI report, Dr Chanchal Bhandari, a cardiac anaesthetist at the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre (UNMICRC), received a call from her daughter's nanny saying that smoke was coming from their building. Without wasting time, she rushed back home on her scooter, only to be stopped at the campus gate as rescue teams battled the Bhandari said it was the nanny's quick thinking that saved her daughter. 'She immediately took my daughter to a higher floor to avoid the smoke. When the rescue team asked her to come down, she carefully climbed down one floor while keeping my daughter safe from the smoke,' she to the heavy smoke and flames, residents were told to jump down onto a rescue mat. 'My baby's skin had turned black because of the smoke,' Dr Bhandari said, holding back tears. Her daughter was the first to be caught safely in the mat, followed by the nanny.'I'm thankful to God and to my nanny for saving her,' she child is now under observation and stable at the Civil Hospital campus, according to from TOI
