Quote:Riquelme Maciel, a 5-year-old boy, was playing in his backyard with his friend, when suddenly he saw smoke coming out of a house nearby. He was wearing a Spiderman costume. When he went to tell his friend's mother, she was too afraid to go into the house filled with fire. So Riquelme decided to go in the house himself. This was quoted by the mother: "He said, 'don't cry, don't scream because I'm going to save Andrielle.' Then I began shouting for him not to go because I was scared he would die along with her in the fire." He saved the baby girl and himself from the fire.


Riquelme Maciel plans to become a fire fighter so that he can save more lives.

Quote:A hero dubbed “Spiderman” after scaling a Paris apartment block to rescue a child dangling from a fourth-floor balcony has started work with the city’s fire brigade.

Mamoudou Gassama made headlines around the world by clambering up the front of the building to pull to the helpless four-year-old to safety.

The Malian migrant’s extraordinary feat earned him French citizenship.

Quote:A Thai fireman dressed as Spider-Man used the superhero costume in order to coax the boy down from a third-floor ledge at a special needs school in the nation’s capital, police told AFP.

The boy, who was afraid of attending his first day at school, perched himself on the three-story balcony and refused to come back inside despite pleas made by his teacher and mother.
Overhearing the boy’s mother mention her son’s love of superheroes, firefighter Somchai Yoosabai took matters into his own hands, rushing back to the fire station and changed into the Spider-Man costume quicker than Peter Parker.
When he returned, the boy quickly went into the arms of Spidey.
Yoosabai told local television reporters, “I told him ‘Spider-Man is here to rescue you, no monsters are going to attack you,’ and I told him to walk slowly toward me as running could be dangerous.
Yoosabai keeps both the Spider-Man costume and a costume of Japanese superhero Ultraman at the nearby station in an attempt to make fire drills livelier.

This ripped my heart out and stomped on it 

(06-24-2024, 03:11 PM)BIAD Wrote: There are heroes who never get to don tight-fitting attire and then there's the only-and-only.
Always professional and always clean shaven.