Monchengladbach - by a hair would be the home of Lisa Becker became the death trap: Your TV had exploded and burst into flames while he slept the senior citizen. But thanks to their neighbors, the 81-year-old observant Mönchengladbacherin escaped with a fright. Two courageous carpenter rescued them from smoke and fire.
Friday morning, 7.15 Clock: The students of the carpentry Klomp check the oil level of the company car when she noticed flames on the first floor of an adjacent apartment building.
"We knew that where an elderly woman lives alone," says Jens Leopold (22), working for five years in the making. With several colleagues, he hurried to the house. "We've rung the bell tower," says Leopold. "When no one answered, we rammed the door open." In the pitch-dark hallway to the men senior Lisa Becker stumbled forward in her nightgown. She had innocently slept. That there is a level higher on fire, she initially did not realize - and closes the door on the rescuers.
"I'm clean again," then decide André Züwerink. "Before, I was at the volunteer fire department. I knew that we not collect the woman get out quickly, choking her. " Back in the house Züwerink is the senior citizen in the room with the burning television. "I wanted to remove the apparatus with a wet towel," said Lisa Beckers. "That was my hair had been jet black with the smoke, I did not notice." Although the senior defends wearing Züwerink and colleague, Leopold joined her outside.
Lisa Becker's anger subsided quickly: "Without the carpenter, I might not be awake," she says. "I am very grateful to them."
