A resident of Nizhny Tagil, 38-year-old Maxim Zmeev will receive the EMERCOM medal "For courage in the fire" for saving an elderly woman and her son from the fire. 85-year-old grandmother living in a private house, decided to put the kettle, but accidentally poured into it not water, but gasoline, because the canisters were the same.

"In the already burning, smoke-filled house, Grandma was awakened by Maxim, helped her crawl to the exit. Why crawling - because at the bottom, near the floor, you could still breathe. Darya Petrovna slightly burned her hair on her head and forehead, she began to cough and suffocate, but Maxim, however, brought an elderly woman from a burning house, "- said in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region.

After that, Zmeev returned for his grandmother's 54-year-old son - Pavel. He was in a state of intoxication and slept. When the hero woke him, Pavel, at first not understanding what was what, rushed into the fray. Maxim still managed to get the man out of the burning room.

Zmeev admitted that he himself was surprised where he got his strength from.

"At that moment I did not think about the danger, I knew that there were people in the house that they should be saved," he said..