Portable pool saves family

Escaping the waters: A screengrab from the viral video showing Azriel and his relatives pushing the inflatable pool to safety. Some flood victims at the Penampang Cultural Centre.

Azriel, 29, used the inflatable pool to ferry six children, including his one-year-old infant and daughter, aged two, to higher ground as flood waters gushed into their houses. “In our minds, we just wanted to get the kids to safety; that was our priority,” he said when contacted yesterday. “We were in a race against time because the water was still rising as it rained heavily. We could not fit everyone in the pool as it would sink,” Azriel said.

“I think we have lost about RM15,000 worth of belongings in the floods,” said Azriel, who works as an electricity metre reader.

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