A number of incidents took place around the world last year involving children falling or jumping from buildings into the arms of quick-thinking people on the ground.

In July, Phillip Blanks, a former football player and US Marine, was in the right place at the right time when a building caught fire, forcing a mother to drop her child off a third-floor balcony to save him.

In the same month, in China’s Jiangsu Province, people watched on in horror as a two-year-old climbed out of a window at an apartment block and onto an air-conditioner unit before falling into the arms of Li Dehai, standing below.

The children in these stories are often saved by friends, neighbours, or people passing by, with the most recent rescue happening in Istanbul, Turkey.

A mother rescued her four children from a building fire by throwing them out of a third-floor window, into blankets held by neighbours below, reports The Guardian.

Videos were captured of the rescue:

A witness to the rescue described the incident to a local news outlet in Turkey, The Daily Sabah:

“First, black smoke started to come out. Then, the children started shouting from the windows. And we opened the blankets. A woman threw the children down from above. So, we caught four kids with blankets.”

The blaze, which began in an electrical panel, was extinguished by firefighters.

The children were uninjured and their mother was rescued and taken to hospital to be checked out.

She was later discharged.

[source:guardian]&dailysabah]