Marco Casu is a postman from the Italian Post Office who works at the distribution center in via Liguria in Oristano and who yesterday, in Solarussa, saved a family in whose home a fire had developed.

The 39-year-old was carrying out the usual delivery round and, when he arrived in Via Emilia, he saw much denser smoke than usual coming out of a flue.

He immediately realized that something was wrong: “I tried to knock, without getting an answer and, seeing that the door was half-open, without hesitating further, I entered - his story -. I noticed that the hall was enveloped in an intense blanket of smoke, that the chimney hood was on fire, and that inside there were a woman with her four-month-old daughter and her mother, a 76-year-old old woman ”.

With the postman's entry into the house, the family realized that the situation was serious, "I immediately let the elderly lady out with the child - adds Marco - to make them safe, and I asked to find water, to try to put out the fire, and some blankets, to intervene immediately. I threw the water on the fire and then, with the help of the blankets, I tried to suffocate the fire by closing the mouth of the fireplace ".

Meanwhile, the fire brigade had also intervened and the house was made safe.

"I am sure that without Marco's prompt intervention and courage - wrote the new mother in a letter to Poste Italiane - today I probably would not be able to tell a story that had a happy ending".

(Unioneonline / ss)