It’s almost impossible to not hold your breath while watching this video of two men in southern China desperately reaching out to save a 1-year-old baby.
According to Euronews, the toddler had climbed onto a window ledge during a thunderstorm, said a vendor who stays across from the building in Guangdong Province.
Two men, identified only as Mr. Li and Mr. Hu, noticed the baby and rushed to the window, in hopes of catching him. Other residents also brought items that would help break the fall.
Fortunately, the items weren’t needed.
“I didn’t think too much at the time. I was just afraid of failing to catch him. Some people put down cardboard to avoid serious injuries to the baby if I fail to catch him,” Li was quoted as saying by China’s CCTV.
“It was nothing but human instinct to do so,” Hu said.
The baby was unharmed in the fall and reunited with his mother.
