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With their house on fire there was no way for widow Hng Tho Heng and her two teenage children to run downstairs to safety.
 
Her two teens started to panic but Hng's quick action ensured that four lives were saved.
 
The mother and teens, together with a two-month-old baby that Hng was babysitting, were sleeping when she was jolted awake by the acrid smell of smoke at 3.45am.
 
“I quickly woke up the children as I suspected there was a fire outside the room.
 
“I realised that the fire was too strong when I opened the door, so we decided not to go downstairs to escape, but to try other ways,” she said outside her home yesterday in Taman Mawar along Jalan Raja Uda here.
 
The 59-year-old grabbed the baby boy and together with her children Chuah Wan Jun, 17, and Woong Choom, 14, close behind, climbed out of her house balcony and walked onto their neighbours' house to avoid the flames.
 
Hng's husband died of lung cancer in 2007, leaving her as the family's sole breadwinner.
 
The distraught widow said they could not save anything. Read more