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A mother has expressed deep gratitude towards two strangers who saved her nine-month-old daughter from a burning vehicle, describing them as “literal lifesavers.” Alex McClean, aged 21, from Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, was driving along a dual carriageway around 13:20 GMT on Wednesday when her car suddenly started to emit smoke. Although she managed to escape, the car doors locked automatically, leaving her baby, Lilah, trapped inside.
As flames began to engulf the car, Wesley Beynon and his uncle Marc Willding, both from Merthyr Tydfil, came to the rescue. Wesley managed to open the driver’s side door and entered the vehicle to unbuckle Lilah’s harness, while Marc safely pulled the baby out. The group reunited on Saturday, with Alex expressing that Lilah would grow up knowing the heroic men who saved her life and that she would never forget their bravery.
The incident occurred while Alex was on the A465 near Merthyr Tydfil, heading to a playgroup with Lilah. When the car started to lose power and smoke filled the cabin, Alex pulled over but found herself unable to unlock the rear passenger doors despite her attempts. “I thought everything was just locked,” she said, recalling the panic as she tried unsuccessfully to break the windows with her keys and called the police with the bonnet beginning to discolor from the heat.
Wesley, a welder fabricator, described the scene as “horrifying” when he saw Alex screaming for help, clearly distressed with her baby trapped in the vehicle. He acted instinctively, breaking into the driver’s side to free the child just moments before the car was completely engulfed in flames. Marc added that they would not have left the scene until Lilah was safely out, emphasizing they would have done “it anyway possible.” Thanks to their timely intervention, Lilah was unharmed, and Alex later presented gifts to thank her rescuers, calling Wesley and Marc “real lifesavers.” Wesley said the praise they received online was overwhelming but stressed their motivation was simply to help. He urged others witnessing emergencies to “just stop and help,” noting that doing so could “potentially change somebody’s life as we have just done.”
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