“Colonel of Police Andrey Kotsur was the first policeman to arrive at the scene of fire and, risking his own life, carried a 3-year old boy out from the burning building,” said Russian MIA official representative Irina Volk.

Being at his workplace, Deputy Chief of the Novorossiysk Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Russian MIA Colonel of Police Andrey Kotsur noticed dense black smoke rising from household buildings opposite. The policeman rushed to the place of fire and saw a two-floor building engulfed in flames and a crowd of people nearby.

A barely audible voice of a child was heard from a household building. Andrey Kotsur instructed the duty policeman to call a fire team and an ambulance at the scene and entered the burning building. Making his way along the hall, the Colonel of Police found the child in one of the rooms and carried the boy out from fire. The boy aged 3 at most did not suffer. Several minutes later, the building burned down and collapsed.

The rescuers who arrived at the scene extinguished the fire, while the boy was delivered to the doctors.

The management of the University is currently considering the issue on awarding the meritorious policeman.