The spirit of real heroes. Russian doctors complete heart surgery during hospital fire!! A team of doctors successfully completed open heart surgery inside a Russian hospital that caught fire last week as firefighters battled the flames from the outside. The wooden roofed building in the far eastern city of Blagoveshchensk caught fire and 60 patients were evacuated as it filled with smoke. But a team of eight doctors performing the operation on the ground floor carried on. "We had to save this person and we did everything," Said the head of the cardio surgery unit in an interview. The surgery continued thanks to an emergency electricity cable run into the ground-floor operating theatre as fans kept the smoke out, all while firefighters ensured smoke did not spread to the room. After the operation, the patient was evacuated from the burning building to another hospital. Russia's emergencies ministry said the hospital was built in 1907 in the tsarist era, and the blaze "spread like lightning through the wooden ceilings". A short circuit is thought to have sparked the fire.
