The little boy was the first to smell that there was a fire in the neighbor’s apartment on Monday, the ‘Krone’ reports. Together with his father he sounded the alarm and thus prevented a catastrophe.
The residents of a residential building in St. Martin am Tennengebirge have Emil’s nose to thank for the fact that they still have a roof over their heads. The boy came home from the pediatrician with his father shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday when he noticed a burning smell: “Daddy, daddy, it’s burning!”
Thank God no one home
Almir Hadzalic and the four-year-old, who is suffering from an ear infection, had just gotten out of the car. Father Almir also saw smoke and picked up the phone.
“I immediately called the fire brigade. Then I entered the house and wanted to inform the neighbors and other residents,” said the father of three children. Fortunately, no one was home in the apartment where a dryer in the bathroom started burning.
A big firefighter myself
While his father was still inside, the sick boy waited in the cold outside the apartment building. The St. Martin Fire Department arrived within a few minutes, opened the window to the bathroom from the outside and extinguished the fire. Emil watched enchanted from his father’s arm. Like many people his age, the boy is a big firefighter.
The Hadzalic have lived in St. Martin for almost four years. The family with Bosnian roots is well integrated. Emil’s big sisters go to school, the boy to kindergarten. The neighbors helped when we moved here, now they want to help. “I immediately offered that the neighbors could shower and do laundry with us after the fire,” says Hadzalic – and he means it.
Source: Krone
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