Some ladies in Jiangsu have been getting into a bit of a fix with their balconies of late, in two separate incidents, in two cities, but with a degree of uncanny similarity. Were they just careless in hanging out their washing?
最近，江苏的一些女士在阳台上遇到了一些麻烦，在两个城市发生了两起不同的事件，但有一定程度的惊人相似。他们只是在晾晒洗好的衣服时不小心吗？
It was in the past few days in Zhenjiang City of our very own Jiangsu Province that a woman slipped from her balcony window on her apartment building’s fifth floor.
就在这几天，在我们江苏省镇江市，一名妇女从自家公寓五楼的阳台窗户滑落。
She’d now be dead too, or at the least very badly injured were it not for the awning extending outward from the building two floors below.
如果不是有从下面两层楼向外延伸的遮阳篷，她现在也已经死了，或者至少受了重伤。
The canopy broke the woman’s fall and somewhat incredibly, withstood the impact without collapsing. The woman, knocked unconscious, was left lying there on top of the damaged awning.
天篷挡住了女人的坠落，令人难以置信的是，它承受住了冲击力，没有倒塌。这名女子被撞昏迷不醒，躺在受损的遮阳篷上。
But firefighters were soon on the scene, bringing with them a 15-metre ladder which they used to assist from below while the woman was hoisted successfully into the window of the third-floor apartment.
但消防队员很快就赶到了现场，他们带来了一把15米长的梯子，他们用梯子从下面协助，最终将女子成功吊到了三楼公寓的窗户上。
Elsewhere, it was the local SWAT team to the rescue when a senior lady found herself hanging outside her balcony.
在其他地方，当一位高级女士发现自己挂在阳台外时，当地特警队前来救援。
It was on 19 September in the coastal city of Yancheng in eastern Jiangsu that the drama unfolded, reports The Paper.
据澎湃新闻报道，这出大戏于9月19日在江苏东部沿海城市盐城上演。
Hanging from her fourth-floor balcony, it was obviously a moment of life and death. Knowing full well she could perhaps hang on for seconds rather than minutes, the SWAT team raced into the building.
悬挂在她四楼的阳台上，这显然是一个生死攸关的时刻。特警队深知她也许能坚持几秒钟而不是几分钟，于是冲进了大楼。
In a dramatic video of the rescue captured by an officer’s body cam, applause is heard to erupt from onlookers gathered below as the lady is recovered into her home.
在一名警察的随身摄像机拍摄的一段戏剧性的救援视频中，当这位女士被带回家中时，聚集在下面的旁观者爆发出热烈的掌声。
Quite what the old lady was doing or how she ended up in that predicament has not been reported. From The Nanjinger’s observations however, it is clear that Zhenjiang’s SWAT team has likely never moved so fast. Full kudos to them and those firefighters in Zhenjiang.
至于这位老太太做了什么，以及她是如何陷入这种困境的，目前还没有报道。但从《南京人》的观察来看，镇江特警队的行动显然从未如此之快。向他们和镇江的消防员们致敬。
