Off-duty Pune fireman rescues 4-year-old girl in nick of time | Watch

The fireman broke open the door of the flat and saved the child. (Photo: @jayeshkatariya/Twitter)

An off-duty fireman rescued a four-year-old girl who was about to fall from a third-floor window in Pune’s Katraj area, News18 reported. The girl was left alone at home and got stuck while trying to climb out of the window.

As per the report, the incident occurred when the child’s mother had stepped out to drop her elder daughter at school, leaving the younger one unattended in their flat.

This morning in Katraj a 4-year-old girl was left hanging from a window after her mother briefly stepped out to drop her elder daughter at school. Off-duty firefighter Yogesh Chavan spotted the child and rescued her just in time. #Punepic.twitter.com/a1YCBnLv8g

— Pune City Life (@PuneCityLife) July 8, 2025

The girl climbed the window and slipped through its grille. Fire officer Chavan, who resides in the same building and rescued the child, said the girl’s head was wedged between the window bars while the rest of her body was dangerously dangling outside. “The girl was screaming due to pain," he told The Times of India.

A resident spotted the child hanging and shouted from the ground floor, “Bacchi gir rahi hai (the girl is falling)," drawing attention to the emergency. Chavan, who was on his weekly off and sipping tea at the time, heard the screams and immediately sprang into action, the report added.

“Owing to my training in firefighting, I knew exactly what to do," he told TOI. “I ran to the building, saw the girl’s mother who had just returned, took the keys from her, and rushed upstairs. I unlocked the flat and managed to pull the girl out of the grille."