A London based man made the news around the world after he
bravely saved the life of his entire family who would have otherwise
died in the London Tower inferno. Marcio Gomes had been waiting for help
to come, but when firefighters still hadn't made it to the 21st floor
where he lived, he knew it was up to him to save his family. He wrapped
his seven-month pregnant wife and their two daughters in wet towels, and
ushered them down the burning stairs.
Marcio revealed after the incident that it was very dark and the fire
was raging. There were bodies strewn all over the floor but they kept
going trying to get to safety. On getting downstairs, he discovered that
his eldest daughter was not with them after collapsing from smoke
inhalation. He rushed back into the burning building despite the
warnings by firefighters and saved her.
Andreia who was pregnant with a baby boy, already named Logan, was
put into a medically-induced coma to recover from the incident. When she
woke up, she discovered that her unborn baby had died due to cyanide
poisoning. He was delivered through caesarean section but did not have a
heartbeat. It is unclear where the cyanide had come from, but tests
showed that they all had it in their systems.
Speaking to BBC's Newsnight as she recovers, Andreia said:
"They believed that the poisons went in and obviously everything goes
to the baby. When you go ahead ignoring something like that I feel that
you don't care. You (council bosses) just killed so many people and you
just killed my son. Because in a normal situation I could have gone out
and her could have survived. But because of the conditions, he passed
away. They said that they believed as the poison went in and settled in
my body everything goes to the baby. After seven months the lungs of the
baby start to develop. The amount that he received was enough to stop
his heart.
"I knew something was wrong as soon as they told me that they need to
protect the mother as a priority. I broke down because I knew what they
were saying without saying it. And later on they said that the baby had
passed away. They can't say 100 per cent but they said the heart just
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