{
  "id": 16108044,
  "title": "How Kiambu teacher scaled burning building to rescue a child from balcony",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/how-kiambu-teacher-scaled-burning-building-to-rescue-a-child-from",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T20:58:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/how-kiambu-teacher-scaled-burning-building-to-rescue-a-child-from-balcony"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Kiambu teacher risked his life to rescue a three-year-old girl trapped on the balcony of a burning fourth-floor apartment in Gachie, even as two of her siblings died in the fire. Joash Ondieki climbed the exterior of the building as flames spread through the apartment and thick smoke billowed from its windows, with neighbours […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}