Khabarovsk Student Awarded Medal of Bravery in Fire Fighting

KHABAROVSK. April 5. VOSTOK-MEDIA – Viktorya Partola, a student of Khabarovsk School No. 63, received a medal from the All-Russia Volunteer Fire-Fighters Society.

On October 28, 2009, fire occurred in a wooden house in Batareiny Side Street, Khabarovsk, a spokesman for Khabarovsk Krai Emergency Situations Department told Vostok-Media. Viktorya and her mother were the first to notice and report the fire. There were three children in one of the apartments in the burning house. Viktorya picked up one of the three children in her arms, covered her head with a towel, and having told the other two kids to go by her side, she got them out of the burning house. She had hardly brought them out of the house when the stair collapsed.

This is an act of great bravery. Risking her own life, she saved three children. The All-Russia Volunteer Fire-Fighters Society decided to award her a Medal of Bravery in Fire Fighting.

The whole school gathered in a solemn line-up dedicated to the awarding ceremony. Her mother, grandmother and her elder sister also came to the ceremony.

Anatoly Kukurenchuk, the Chairman of the Khabarovsk branch of the All-Russia Volunteer Fire-Fighters Society thanked Viktorya for the brave deed and expressed hope that she will become a rescue worker, because she has everything needed for it – tender and brave heart, courage and the ability to take quick and right decisions. But Viktorya had already made up her mind that she will work in Emergency Situations Department.

Anatoly Kukurenchuk gave her the medal and presented 10,000 rubles award.