Quick thinking

Since these babies were all prematurely born, many of them were already on oxygen support and had IVs attached. Savita ensured that once they were safe, she reconnected the IVs and oxygen to those who were in need of it. “The child who needed the oxygen the most is whom I attended to first and then the others.”

Fearing that the electric panel next to her flat would catch fire, she quickly alerted her own family. Her husband Girish rushed out with her four-year-old daughter, so did her mother and a friend who was living with them.

Yogesh Chavan was heading to his home in Satara after completing his night duty at the Kothrud fire station when he saw the bus on fire.

68-year-old George Kutty was travelling from Adoor to Thiruvalla. Just as the bus crossed the town of Pandalam, he began to feel queasy.

It had the timely intervention of the captain and co-pilot who quickly considered their options for emergency landing and zeroed down on Hyderabad.