A DHL Boeing 737-800 cargo plane operated by Kalitta Charters II suffered a brake lockup and caught fire after landing at LAX Wednesday night. Flames were seen coming from the left side of the aircraft before airport rescue crews quickly put out the fire.

ALERT: American Airlines flight has to make an emergency landing after flames and smoke shoot from an engine. A Boeing 737 was taking off from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Charlotte, North Carolina, with 172 passengers and 9 crew members. Shortly after takeoff, a pilot says, “Mayday, mayday, mayday. We’ve got an engine problem here.” It is believed to be caused by a bird strike, as multiple bird remains were found along the runway. The plane safely landed back in Myrtle Beach, and passengers praised the crew for remaining calm during the incident. 📹: Patrick Gotwalt | Facebook

HOLY FUCK. A group of Israelis in Albania were kicked out of an Airbnb after the owner discovered they were soldiers serving in the IDF. The very next day, the place went up in flames. Coincidence?

🇩🇪 She couldn’t climb down, so she did the unthinkable and jumped. A fire was ripping through an 18-story apartment building in Berlin when one woman ended up stuck outside, with flames and black smoke pouring out right next to her. She tried climbing down to the apartment below, but couldn’t find anywhere safe to place her feet and keep going. So she took the only option left: let go and drop around two floors into a firefighter’s rescue basket below. And somehow, it worked. She was caught and walked away with just minor injuries. The fire affected 115 people, with 25 brought to safety. Officials still don’t know what started it. Absolutely terrifying gamble, but it got her out alive. Source: AP / Writer: Daniyal

She pushed her two youngest children out the front door. Then she locked it from the inside. Not to keep them in. To keep them from following her back into the fire. It was just after midnight on September 3, 2019, in Edsbyn, Sweden. Emma Schols woke to terrified screams coming from downstairs. Her youngest sons, four-year-old Albin and three-year-old Oliver, had wandered into the television room. By the time Emma reached them, flames had already swallowed much of the ground floor. Thick black smoke filled every breath. She threw herself over the boys and fought toward the front door. The moment it opened, fresh air rushed inside. The fire exploded. Heat tore across her back as she forced both boys outside to safety. Then she closed and locked the door behind her. Four more children were still trapped upstairs. She refused to let panic pull anyone back into the burning house. The staircase was already engulfed in flames. Emma climbed it anyway. Every step felt impossible. The heat was so intense that the soles of her feet began to burn away. She later recalled feeling them hang like threads as she climbed. Still, she kept moving. At the top of the stairs, she found that her nine-year-old daughter, Nellie, had already jumped from the balcony to get help. Her eleven-year-old son, William, had lowered a ladder for the others. Emma counted her children. One was missing. Mollie. Just one year old. Still inside. Her older children begged her not to go back. The smoke was too thick. The fire was out of control. Emma turned around without saying a word. She crawled back into the house. Smoke blinded her. Her lungs struggled for air. Every movement pushed her burned body beyond its limits. Then she heard crying. Through the smoke she saw little Mollie standing in her crib, frightened and alone. Emma later said she thought she had nothing left to give. But the moment she saw her baby, strength she never knew she possessed returned. She stood, lifted Mollie into her arms, and carried her toward the balcony. Outside, William still held the ladder in place. Emma climbed down with her daughter pressed tightly against her. Only after both feet touched the ground did her body surrender. She collapsed onto the grass. Every one of her six children had survived. Emma had not escaped unharmed. Burns covered ninety-three percent of her body. Doctors knew the injuries were among the most severe a person could survive. She spent weeks on a ventilator, underwent more than twenty surgeries, and faced months of painful rehabilitation. Before losing consciousness, she had made one promise to her children. She would come home. When she finally woke, she did not ask about herself. Her first question was simple. “Are my children alive?” They were. Returning home brought new challenges. Her scars had transformed her appearance so dramatically that some of her children were frightened at first. Little Mollie, the baby she had carried through the fire, did not immediately recognize her. But Emma refused to give up. She learned to walk again. To use her hands again. To hold her children again. In 2020, Sweden honored her as Lifesaver of the Year. Her son William later said there were moments he feared he would never see his mother again, and that simply having her home made him happy every day. People often call Emma a hero. She answers with the same simple conviction. “If I gave birth to six children, I will get all six out.” She has since shared her story publicly, embraced the scars that cover her body, and rebuilt her life with her family. To many people, those scars tell a story of pain. To Emma, they tell a different story. They are proof that on one terrible night, a mother’s love became stronger than fire. She never entered that burning house because she believed she was fearless. She entered because, in her heart, the decision had already been made. All six children would leave that house alive. And somehow, against every expectation, they did.

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