Ahmed Awad Anzi, told Al Arabiya the details of what happened and how he rescued the female doctors and children. (Al Arabiya)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya
A Saudi hospital security officer has spoken of the moment he saved 17 doctors and children when a fire ripped through King Khaled Hospital in Al-Kharj in Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed Awad Anzi, 27, told Al Arabiya of his heroic actions. “When I entered the hospital headquarters, I heard colleagues say that there is a fire in the residential building of the hospital. We went immediately to the site and when I detected the smoke coming out of the building I asked colleagues if they have informed the civil defense forces. They assured me that help was coming,” he said.
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“I couldn’t wait any longer, knowing there were children and women in the building. I used my wet shirt as a barrier to the smoke and I rushed inside, knocking on doors and waking up the residents who were sound asleep while others were alarmed by the smoke,” he continued.
And Anzi recalled how he saved the last sleeping doctor as the blaze ripped through the building: “After I made sure that we evacuated the place and rescued the doctors and children. One physician told me that her colleague was still sleeping inside the burning building. I took the details of her room and raced back inside, but the situation was more difficult due to the concentration of smoke.”
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