This happened 30 years ago today.(5.5.1982)

Manabu Sato-Tokyo fire department firefighter- dispatched on the scene.

He managed to go to victims on the seventh floor and he protected the victims with his body against fire.

After the victims rode a lifter of an aerial ladder, he let it go.

Because he worried overweight.

So he grabbed another ladder, but the ladder was too hot to grab…

He saved four people but he was killed in the flame.

He was 30-year-old at that time and three months had passed since he got married.

This statue is memorial for him and pray for safety of firefighters and police officers.