In a swift action, Fire and Emergency Services personnel rescued a 37-year-old woman in the nick of time while she was attempting to end her life along with five-year-old son on Wednesday.
Fireman Venkataram, along with his colleagues Venkatagowda and Muniraju, broke open the door and pounced on the woman before she could light a matchbox after opening the knob of the LPG cylinder. The personnel dragged the woman and the child out of the apartment and opened the windows and doors of the apartment to let the gas out.
The incident occurred around 8.30 am on Wednesday when all the policemen and fire personnel were busy at the Janaspandana programme of Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar in K.R. Puram on Wednesday. The victim Tamil Selvi, a resident of Shreenidhi Alpines Apartment, Nagondanahalli, locked the flat from the inside, and shut all doors and windows with her son Ashwath, 5 inside, after a fight with her husband and his family.
