Zhang Yang climbs onto the anti-theft window frame to rescue the woman stranded inside her apartment on fire in Jiayu county, Xianning city, Central China's Hubei province, on Feb 14, 2016. [Photo/IC]

A courier named Zhang Yang, 28, moved Chinese netizens by climbing onto a building's anti-theft window to rescue a woman from fire in Central China's Hubei province, news portal Sina.com reported.

About 10am on Feb 14, Zhang was sorting parcels with his colleagues at an express outlet in a neighborhood in Jiayu county in Xianning city. Suddenly he saw a cloud of heavy smoke coming out of a building in the opposite neighborhood.

The burning house was on the third floor of the building, and a woman was seen on the balcony stuck behind the anti-theft window in a panic .

With no hesitation, Zhang ran to the building and said: "Don't be afraid, I am coming to help you."

Zhang climbed onto the balcony without safety devices and planned to bend the window's iron pillars with his hands. However, he failed after several tries.

After his colleagues gave him a steel bar, Zhang still failed to break the window though the bar was bent.

Meanwhile, fire spread toward the window gradually with more explosions happened inside the room.

At that moment, the exhausted courier found a locked small door at the right side of the anti-theft window. Zhang climbed to the door and tried to unlock it.

Surrounded by heavy smoke, Zhang could not breathe normally. Since it just wastes time to find tools, the courier decided to strike the small door with his right elbow. With constant strike, the door was knocked down, Zhang and the woman escaped from the building down a ladder Zhang's colleagues found.

Immediately after they left the building, the windows burst out due to the big fire.

"I cannot imagine what I would be if I wasn't saved in time by the courier," said the woman surnamed Sun.

"Some of Zhang's hair was burned, and his face turned grey and black due to the smoke. Zhang kept choking and didn't get his breath again for half an hour," colleague Chen Wenbo said.

As for what he did, Zhang said: "I climbed to save the woman by instinct. All I thought at that moment is to rescue her."