This is the exact moment a maid risked her own life to save a little child, just as the explosion oc

[soothsayer]

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Muhammad Lila
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Everyone is sharing videos of today's deadly #BeirutBlast.

Here's something else.

This is the exact moment a maid risked her own life to save a little child, just as the explosion occurred.

Heroes can be anywhere.

[Iliyah]

1. The ground shook and seconds later windows . . .

blown out . . the maid definitely saved baby girl's life as well as her own.

[FBaggins]

2. I'm not seeing it

There are no blown-out windows in the video (it's an outdoor play area / patio with some form of shade curtains)... nor does it look like either life was at risk in the aftermath of the pressure wave.

What the video shows is a woman (maid? mother?) who was willing to risk her own safety to help the child. But no reason to believe that the sacrifice was necessary.

[chowder66]

3. The sacrifice was made in the moment of not knowing what was happening.

She could not know if more was to come or what was to come.

[riversedge]

4. Her actions were quick to pick up the

young child. Good for her

[chowder66]

7. I agree.

[bigtree]

5. normally in these explosions, there's flying glass. She instinctively knew to get the child away

...from the window.

another Beirut account:

Beirut Explosion: 'I Was Bloodied and Dazed

BEIRUT — I was just about to look at a video a friend had sent me on Tuesday afternoon — “the port seems to be burning,” she said — when my whole building shook, as if startled, by the deepest boom I’d ever heard. Uneasily, naïvely, I ran to the window, then back to my desk to check for news.

Then came a much bigger boom, and the sound itself seemed to splinter. There was shattered glass flying everywhere. Not thinking but moving, I ducked under my desk.

When the world stopped cracking open, I couldn’t see at first because of the blood running down my face. After blinking the blood from my eyes, I tried to take in the sight of my apartment turned into a demolition site. My yellow front door had been hurled on top of my dining table. I couldn’t find my passport, or even any sturdy shoes.

Later, someone would tell me that Beirutis of her generation, who had been raised during Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, instinctively ran into their hallways as soon as they heard the first blast, to escape the glass they knew would break

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[lame54]

6. She rose to the occasion...

You can sort out the details later

[TomSlick]

8. Wow! Amazing reaction time.

[Skittles]

9. I am curious what initially caught her attention, when she looked back

wonderful gal