The video of Shaji Varghese’s rescue has gone viral on social media, with many people praising him online. In Kerala’s Kozhikode district, a truck delivering straw caught fire. The driver realised that the straw in the truck had caught fire as he travelled from Wayanad to Kodancherry. He stops the truck and flees the scene out of panic.

Varghese stepped into the vehicle and drove to the field next to St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School. When he drove the truck in a zigzag manner, his quick thinking paid off. People gathered at the scene to separate the unburned straw bundles from those that burned. The Mukkam fire brigade was called quickly to the incident, and the fire was quickly extinguished.

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