Hero worker dashes through flames to save trapped colleague
Close call in blazing office block
Glen Edwards, 65, showed nerves of steel when he braved smoke and fire to rescue a trapped workman at the £750m One Station Hill office project near Reading Station.
Waving coat caught his eye in thick smoke
The Egham man said he spotted the pleas for help when the trapped worker frantically waved his coat amid the inferno.
Expert pilot drops cage to save colleague
Under intense pressure, Glen expertly lowered a cage onto the burning building’s roof. Cheers erupted as the desperate worker leapt inside and was winched to safety.
