When Gorgui Lamine Sow heard shouts for help and saw the fire at a residence in eastern Spain last week, he didn’t think twice. Scaling a wall and climbing onto a balcony, he entered the burning second-floor apartment, hoisted the occupant onto his shoulder and carried him to safety. The proposal has been backed by an online petition that has gained more than 40,000 signatures in the week since the rescue. Image “I don’t like to see people suffer,” Gorgui Lamine Sow said of the rescue. Sow told the newspaper, Levante-EMV, about the rescue.

Source: International New York Times December 12, 2019 14:15 UTC