New Delhi, April 12 -- A fire erupted on the fourth floor of an apartment complex in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Friday. The blaze was eventually brought under the control after seven fire engines were deployed to the scene. As heat and smoke engulfed even the lower floors, residents desperately tried to flee the building using balconies on staircase landings. In a gripping moment caught on camera, a woman and two young children narrowly escaped tragedy.

The footage shows the woman carefully lifting the children over a fourth-floor balcony wall, holding them by their arms while shouting for help. Two men on the floor below bravely balanced on the parapet and caught the children as she dropped them one by one into their waiting arms.

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