Father of two Jay Payne has described the 'traumatising' moment he had to drop his daughters from a window 30 feet high to save them from a raging fire.
A desperate dad begged neighbours to catch his two young daughters as he dropped them nearly 30 feet from the top floor window of a blazing block of flats.
Jay Payne, 26, was woken up by the fire alarm shortly after midnight on Wednesday as his apartment in Somerset Court, Gosport, Hampshire, went up in flames. After hurling mattresses out to break their fall, he dropped the girls, aged seven and four, into the arms of residents who had already fled their own homes before he and his wife escaped.Dozens of firefighters were scrambled to tackle the blaze, which is being investigated as an arson attack.
Families from 23 flats were saved, four people taken to hospital with burns, smoke inhalation and for checks. Four dogs and three cats were also rescued.‘The whole place went black. We were screaming at the top of our lungs for someone to help us.‘It was very traumatising...my four-year-old daughter has burns up her arms from her fingertips to her shoulders.
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