An Asda delivery driver is being hailed a hero after he rushed into a burning building to save a newborn baby.
26-year-old Habeel Khan, who works at the Asda Home Shopping Centre, was doing his delivery rounds when he noticed smoke coming from a building. He stopped to check and saw a crying woman outside with two children.
The mother shouted that her 7-weel-old baby was still inside the property.
Habeel didn’t think twice and ran into the house with the mother to save the newborn baby, and they managed to come out of the blaze with the child.
“It was a just a normal day at work for me,” Habeel said in an interview with Nottinghamshire Live.
“I was doing my deliveries in the Stapleford area and when I pulled up and looked over to where the customer’s house was I saw loads of smoke just gushing out of a house.
“My natural instinct was to just run across to the house. I could see loads of smoke and lots of people panicking outside.
“I shouted ‘Is everyone out of the house?’ and that’s when a woman with two young children shouted ‘My baby; my baby’s still in the house.”
Habeel continued: “I don’t think she had realised until then and then she ran back into the house and I went with her.
“She managed to pick up the baby from a room next to the kitchen where the fire had started, then we ran out.”
Even though he received praises for what he did, the kindhearted man said he “didn’t really think anything of it.”
“I don’t think I have done anything heroic at all to be honest. Thankfully everyone was okay in the end and the family are back in the house,” he expressed.
Habeel was recently named Colleagues’ Colleague of the Year at the Being Asda Awards 2019.
“We know him as Smiler. He is always happy. He is always doing the right thing by the customer,” said Peter Smith, Habeel’s manager. “He is an absolute asset to the team and a credit to the company.”
Anthony Hemmerdinger, Asda’s senior vice president of operations, also said: “What Habeel did was remarkable and it’s not something we would recommend that our colleagues do, however it’s clear that in this instance his instinct kicked in and he did a remarkable job.”
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