“There’s been banging upstairs for three hours” ... Firefighters rescue elderly woman trapped in bathroom

[Financial News] A story has emerged of firefighters who responded to an “inter-floor noise” report in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, rescuing a woman in her 80s who was trapped in a bathroom.
According to the Gyeonggi Gwangju Fire Station on the 11th, a 112 report came in around noon the previous day from a four-story multi-unit building in Chuja-dong, Gwangju, saying, “There’s a continuous banging noise coming from upstairs.”
The firefighters joined police in a joint response and checked each unit to find the source of the inter-floor noise.
There was no response at one home on the third floor, so the firefighters went to check inside in case of an emergency. They used a compact ladder truck to reach a window and entered the home.
The home the firefighters entered was filled with the sound of someone knocking on a door—“thump, thump.” A woman in her 80s, identified only as Ms. A, lived there alone; they found her trapped in the bathroom.
The sound they had thought was inter-floor noise was actually Ms. A’s call for help.
Fire authorities immediately opened the door and rescued Ms. A. After being trapped in the bathroom for about three hours, the back of her hand was reportedly covered in bruises.
The chief of the Gyeonggi Gwangju Fire Station said, “This is a case in which a decision not to overlook the possibility of an emergency at the scene of a noise complaint led to the rescue of an elderly person,” adding, “We will do our utmost to respond at the scene so that the desperate signals sent by citizens do not go unanswered.”
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