In Bakhmut, surrounded by the fire of war, a squad of fire fighters still extinguishes fires, dismantles rubble and pulls people out from under them.

Despite the shelling and destruction, these people have remained at their workplaces for 11 months in a row and go on calls, it seemed that only army men could get there, TSN reports. 

Yuriy, Nikita and Oleksandr are local, they remain on duty in their native Bakhmut.

Their only iron horse is a fire engine, already slightly mutilated by the arrival of a projectile.

"It flew into the facade and broke the glass with shards," the rescuers show. 

A dog whose name is simply "Shepherd" works with them.

They are the only ones left in Bakhmut and put out fires after the arrivals, and also dismantle rubble after Russian artillery hits and pull people out from under them.

"There are still local ones left, which are very stable and hardened.

It's hard to work," says Yury Halych, the head of the DSEMS detachment.

A unit of these boys also saved old women who were injured by shrapnel from a Russian projectile, and their picture, taken by a photojournalist from the Netherlands, Andy Van Wassel, went viral.

The photo went viral on social networks in the first seconds after publication.

Even the wife of the President of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, wrote about this picture on her Twitter: "The rocket destroyed the house of this couple.

It took away their happy carefree future.

But there is something that Russia could not take away from them.

Each other".

This elderly couple owes their rescue, and therefore their lives, to the local emergency services.

"There were no severe destructions, there were no rubbles.

Shrapnel wounds - the face and hands were damaged.

There was no fire there, there was no burning," the rescuers recall. 

In a city where explosions don't stop, the boys can already determine what is flying and where by the sound.

"This is an arrival.

This is already usual for us.

This is the district of Zabakhmutka or Opytny.

Somewhere there.

It's still a long way off.

If the exit and arrival are fast, the tank is working.

150 and 200 caliber can be distinguished.

MLRS, too," the boys simply say during an interview about shelling, which they seem to ignore. 

11 months of war, how their shifts turned into one continuous working day.

Their families are far away, their premises are damaged by shelling, and their place of work is a new home.

They did not go, they say, there is no order and no desire to leave their hometown either.

"It is necessary to help.

We are also a great hope for the locals.

If the DSNSniki are here, it means that they are representatives of the authorities.

So, the state did not give up.

And he cares and does everything to protect," rescuers say. 

The fire department has become the "Point of Invincibility", where people come to get technical water and some food, volunteers gather here.

"This is our home and we are trying to save at least something," the State Emergency Service said.

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