What a lucky escape. Two sisters in Atlanta, Georgia were forced to jump
for their lives from a third-floor window - just seconds before the
residential building was engulfed in flames. Both had been spotted
screaming and frantically banging on the window by their neighbors
before fire trucks had reached the scene of the blaze, which destroyed
the homes of 29 people.
Neighbors had advised them to break the window and jump out, which they
did. As the younger sister plunged to the ground, shards of glass
apparently caught her leg, cutting it 'wide open'.
The girls were caught by rescuers waiting on the decking of the house
and then taken to hospital. Witnesses said they were so disoriented they
could not even recall their mother's phone number. Their conditions
remain unknown.
