A man put his life on the line to save a family from a high-rise apartment fire. He risked everything, including his safety, to help a handful of people who were in danger, trapped in a burning apartment. Watch this short but powerful clip to see how this man put his life on the line to save a family from a burning apartment.

What does it take, what must someone do to be considered a hero? In society today, being a hero typically means putting a rubber ball through an orange metal cylinder with only a handful of seconds left on the game clock. Many people, for some inexplicable reason, also consider a person running for public office, while promising to do this or that heroic. Some even believe actors and actresses, people who recite lines written by someone else, to be heroes.

Obviously, society's working definition of a hero and heroism is entirely wrong and distorted. Heroes put others before themselves, risking their safety and even putting their lives in peril. And that is precisely what one man did when he helped an entire family escape a burning building, heroically saving their lives.

In a video posted on social media, a man was captured climbing out of his apartment building and carefully tiptoeing on the ledge while making his way to an apartment with heavy smoke continuously billowing out of it. 

The unnamed hero, once he reaches that burning apartment, reaches for, secures and then moves the children from the smoke-filled apartment to his apartment. He does this for each of the family's children, but he doesn't stop with the children. He continues to risk his life as he rescues the mother and every other remaining family member inside the burning apartment.

At one point during his lifesaving, heroic actions, the camera pans down, giving viewers a quick look at just how much danger this man put himself in to rescue that entire family. One false move and the man would have surely fallen to his death.

Philippians 2:4 "Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others."