(Video provided by Xinhua News, Cangzhou Evening News)

"Fire!", "Fire!" Hearing the faint cry from a smoke-laden roadside store, a home-bound young girl at once abandoned her scooter, rushed into the store and helped a dumbfounded motionless woman out to a safer place.

Then she returned to the store two more times, trying to cut off the power source and using a bucket to put out the fire. When all these ended in vain, she dialed 119 and called her father, who is a veteran firefighter.

Soon, her father and a fire brigade arrived. Her father went into the wholesale store where a lot of toilet paper and carboards were burning, cut off the power source and the firefighters extinguished the fire in no time, saving an estimated loss of more than 200,000 yuan.

The young girl was Sun Xinru, 22, in her third year of university in the north China city of Huanghua, Hebei Province. She was cycling home from a grocery market on May 20, 2022, when she heard the cry for help. For fire rescue efforts, she missed the online lesson for half an hour. she said that she could make up for the lesson but not for the opportunity to put out the fire.

She always takes her father, who has been in the profession for 13 years, as a model to follow. "I enjoy doing it," she said. "It makes me feel good to know I am out there helping people."

On May 23, the paper store owner came to the home of Sun Xinru and presented her with a red banner as a reward. "I will do the same next time when encountering a fire," she said.

Editor: Zheng Bai