[DM] Two young brothers are being hailed as heroes after charging into a burning nursing home to rescue elderly residents.
Alex Bazinyan, 20, and his brother Narek, 15, sprang into action after a fire broke out at an assisted living facility near their home in Glendale, California, at 4.45pm Friday.
Flames and thick gray smoke billowed from the facility on the 1800 block of Mountain Street, prompting Alex to rush outside and see what was unfolding.
'I ran outside and I was looking at the front door when I saw the nurse outside and she was screaming for help,' Alex told KTLA.
Narek followed, and the brothers soon realized multiple people were trapped inside. The 15-year-old said he first grabbed a hose to fight the flames, but the fire grew and the cries for help intensified.
Before firefighters arrived, the brothers made a risky choice: they went inside themselves.
'I go inside this big room and I see all these old people on the floor with catheters,' Alex told the outlet.
'Some people were injured, had blood on their legs. We just took everybody out one by one,' he added. |