I love that Dad. His heartbreak staying away from his boy. Then his determination to find a solution. Being humble and hopeful enough to beg for help and get get his son the care he needs. What a good dad. ❤
@@TTBurgerThePlayStationGamer You have to remember this is Soviet Russia we're talking so it was unprecedented to even let the boy in the USA. Relations between the two nations were tense and they wouldn't want both parents to go because then they may try to stay in the USA rather than go home. Not saying it's right but just probably some of the logic that may have been used in that decision.
It is ironic as the Cold War hadn’t ended yet and therefore the United States and Russia which was then the Soviet Union were still enemies. However this was of course at the time when their relationship improved during Gorbachevs tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union. But still this was one of the times that Americans and Russians worked together to deal with a common problem that being saving Anton’s life as they were both human beings like Anton was.
This happened in unchartered land. Nearest burn unit in Moscow, as mentioned, thousands of miles away. This location is 59 degrees north latitude. It's amazing how everything fell in place for this boy.
I STARTED TO FEEL WORRIED ABOUT ANTON LOSING HIS LIFE, OR LOSING HIS LEGS AND FEET, BUT WHAT A RELIEF, BOTH OF HIS LEGS AND FEET ARE SAVED AND RECOVERED
If only someone had gotten word to Omar Sharif for a financial contribution since he portrayed a poetry writing doctor in the classic movie epic “DOCTOR ZHIVAGO”.
This is the most amazing episode of Rescue 911, especially as a Brit who lived for many years in the Former USSR and returned there. You don't even have to speak the same language or come from the same culture to feel and shed tears for one another. But I have seen that type of hospitality with Russians before like how they gave the American Medical Team some food and drink the moment they reached the hospital in Siberia and were so warm and welcoming. Our professor of Internal Medicine was Russian and he was known for being very tough in exams but he would sometimes have his assistants bring us soup and bread. Same with many other Russians who I met there, the food and drink never ceased to come enough. No words for how magnificent that is.
It’s been 30 years since this happened so Anton is 38 now. I wonder what he’s up to today. This happened on a Monday. When I saw Anton get burnt, I was frightened.
They helped many children in the Soviet Union, they helped those impacted by the earthquake in Armenia in 1988 and the Ufa Train Disaster in 1989 free of charge
Coppola is definitely the filmmaker for the job, and above all else, the doctor leading the American surgical team should be portrayed by C. Thomas Howell or Matt Dillon? Possibly Rob Lowe, or Tom Cruise, not to mention Ralph Macchio, or Emilio Estevez? Maybe even Glenn Withrow? For the Soviet surgeon, either George Hamilton or Richard Chamberlain?
Gorbachev was still in power at the time. At 13:41 Shatner mentions that they were able to grant the United States and Soviet governments to grant full permission for the flight. This was back shortly before the cold war ended, in fact the Berlin wall fell not even a year before this. There was a relationship between U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
A while back on another posting of this segment, someone commented that Anton went on to become a US citizen and is now a doctor in Texas. Can anyone verify that? If that is indeed the case, it’s beyond awesome!
When unintentional trajedy occurs n children must become adults, we might'nt want but tis harsh reality!! 7brainoperations&2time cancer survivor, when I was 10 I encountered truth.
Yes the paper did start the fire but if he wasn't playing with the fuel and soaked his clothes in the fuel which the burring paper caught his fuel soaked pants on fire it wouldn't have been as bad yeah playing with a fire not good even if kids are told no matches doesn't mean if they find the matches in the kitchen or moms purse they are going to think about mom and dad you saying no playing with matches or lighters for me only they seen you light the kitchen stove or the birthday cake candles tor even the BBQ and not get hurt they will think nothing is going to happen to me and will likely try to play with them or go and do something dangerous not knowing what might happen make sure they cant find the matches or lighters in the fist place put them far up where they cant get to them theses kids hid them from his mom so she had no idea they had them there is a TH-cam video of a preschool that did fire safety talked about matches and lighters how they are dangerous and for grown ups only they removed the fuel and match heads and hid them threw out the classroom in toy bins on bookshelves and many other places only a few took the lesson seriously the other kids wanted to start a campfire in the room so keep them out of reach then you removed the fire danger same as gasoline keep it looked up gasoline doesn't need a match or lighter to catch fire kids have dumped gasoline down a slide the static electricity caused the gas to ignite true story so keep those fuels looked up and away just like matches and lighters.
Poor Dr Waymack they interviewed him after he was up late with an emergency and a full days work. All he wanted to do was go home and sleep. He didn’t want to play himself but got roped into it. It took so long and he told them he had to leave to see his actual patients. They grabbed a male nurse that was 6” shorter to replace him.
I'm guessing that he's somewhere between the ages of 22 and, 32 . years old by know am I right? Does anybody happen to know what he's up to these days?
How could they take action in a remote village? The Dad went to the airport as he saw a way out, but it's not like they had money so they could just fly out to Galveston. Anton, if this is true, should realize his mom was there the whole time. He was a very fortunate little boy. Hope he got some pizza and Texas BBQ before he went home. Pizza is the universal language for kids!!!! Mom always said that protein heals.
They hid the matches in a hole from his mom how whould she knowen that they had the matches and dont blame the lady walking by she how would have knowen if they had there parents permision or not its not her fault at all its the fault of the kids and their poor actions.
They weren't allowed to. The kids had a box of matches hidden under the floor boards. They even said that they had them hidden. Kids do stuff they're not allowed to do all the time and kids in Siberia are no different. She DID tell them to stop and then got distracted chasing her son. I'm sure she wishes she had physically taken the boys away from the fire and back to their homes but hindsight is 20/20. And she didn't know that Anton was soaked in oil from the waist down so probably didn't see it as a life or death situation at the moment.
The boy should have used the stop, drop, and roll method to put the flames out. I agree with the other people that the boys should not have been playing with matches and flammable liquids
She said she went into shock seeing someone go up in flames running around screaming in pain like that is a very shocking thing to see when your in shock you just you lose all control of your actions i know what to do if someone catches on fire to cover them with a jacket , roll then on the ground or use a garden hose or fire extinguisher to put the out but not everyone is ready to see something like that its no her fault its the kids for playing with the fire or the fuel which soaked his cloths that's how he caught fire the burring paper set his fuel soaked pants on fire don't play fire or fuels don't get burned and live its plain and simple.
@@LindaCooper-i3fI thought it was Andrew Johnson who the Tsar sold Alaska too. Last time I checked Abe Lincoln had already been killed by the time Alaska was purchased by the United States.
@@Cassxowary But that isn't the real meaning of communism. It is about being 100% controlled by a malicious gov't who kills you if you do not comply and makes you live in poverty, eating dirt while they eat steak. That's communism. America will be there soon enough.
Tell it to my ex-husband’s ancestor Tsar Nicholas, II., and shout it loud because he never had a proper education that would have made him less of an autocrat.
Potato and bread more like carb and carb were are the vegetables carrots and beans and or even tomato salad this is a menu for a typical Italian meal Fried chicken Mashed potatoes Tomes salad Beens We grow everything from tomatoes to beans and parsley and zucchini We buy the potatoes next year were going to try to grow potatoes in my vegetable garden.
This is nice. Soviets and americans putting aside differences to save a life of a child.
Fancy seeing you here sir
That's very true. This episode is very touching
Absolutely!
Hey there, stranger!
@@Soccerdude7330Official Well howdy there!
I love that Dad. His heartbreak staying away from his boy. Then his determination to find a solution. Being humble and hopeful enough to beg for help and get get his son the care he needs. What a good dad. ❤
My heart broke for him. Had to be so hard to not be able to hold his baby boy.
why couldnt he go with anton and anna to alaska
@@TTBurgerThePlayStationGamer You have to remember this is Soviet Russia we're talking so it was unprecedented to even let the boy in the USA. Relations between the two nations were tense and they wouldn't want both parents to go because then they may try to stay in the USA rather than go home. Not saying it's right but just probably some of the logic that may have been used in that decision.
So great to see these countries working together to save this precious baby. I hope his life has been one of joy and happiness.
It is ironic as the Cold War hadn’t ended yet and therefore the United States and Russia which was then the Soviet Union were still enemies. However this was of course at the time when their relationship improved during Gorbachevs tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union. But still this was one of the times that Americans and Russians worked together to deal with a common problem that being saving Anton’s life as they were both human beings like Anton was.
Thanks goes to the Shriners Burn Institute in Galveston, TX, surgeon Paul Waymack and his crew for saving Anton’s life.
And the only other Shriners Burn Institute is possibly in Houston?
@@LindaCooper-i3f At the time there was also one in Cincinnati where Dr Waymack also worked during his career.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Dr Waymack also worked in the one in Cincinnati.
It is nice to know that the boy got the necesary treatment and surgery that he needed. It is nice to know that he is leading a normal life now
he looks really well now i found him on facebook
the fact he is not screaming while hes getting his clothing cut off is amazing, hes a very brave little boy
My fear is that he may have not felt it if the burns were deep enough to affect his nerves.
When burns are deep the nerves are burnt away so no pain is felt. This is also a re-enactment with an actor in makeup.
This happened in unchartered land. Nearest burn unit in Moscow, as mentioned, thousands of miles away. This location is 59 degrees north latitude. It's amazing how everything fell in place for this boy.
Was Galveston actually closer than Moscow?
@@qwerty99337 to galveston: 8,461km and to moscow: 10,198.9km... so unbelievably, yes... I mean we all know russia is huge and very very wide but...
Don’t you mean Houston?
I definitely now stand corrected about Galveston.
@@qwerty99337Alaska is a 4 hour flight from Magadan
I STARTED TO FEEL WORRIED ABOUT ANTON LOSING HIS LIFE, OR LOSING HIS LEGS AND FEET, BUT WHAT A RELIEF, BOTH OF HIS LEGS AND FEET ARE SAVED AND RECOVERED
If only someone had gotten word to Omar Sharif for a financial contribution since he portrayed a poetry writing doctor in the classic movie epic “DOCTOR ZHIVAGO”.
I tracked down Anton on facebook a couple years ago. He's in a band now and plays bass guitar.
I tired looking him up and couldn't find him. So glad he's better now.. does he still have visible scars?
Does he still remember anything about any of this anymore?
@@sassycat6487 I found one profile it says he lives in Ukraine now
So haunting to watch. Especially the mom’s reactions…god must she have had some guilt resulting from that accident.
Betty Johnson is my Aunt. So, very proud of her.
She deserves to be mentioned in a movie theatre version of the story.
Thank god he pulled through!!!
This is the most amazing episode of Rescue 911, especially as a Brit who lived for many years in the Former USSR and returned there. You don't even have to speak the same language or come from the same culture to feel and shed tears for one another.
But I have seen that type of hospitality with Russians before like how they gave the American Medical Team some food and drink the moment they reached the hospital in Siberia and were so warm and welcoming. Our professor of Internal Medicine was Russian and he was known for being very tough in exams but he would sometimes have his assistants bring us soup and bread. Same with many other Russians who I met there, the food and drink never ceased to come enough. No words for how magnificent that is.
It’s been 30 years since this happened so Anton is 38 now. I wonder what he’s up to today. This happened on a Monday. When I saw Anton get burnt, I was frightened.
As an eyewitness to the event, do you think that maybe it’s just about time that the story became a movie for theatre screens?
Doctors are different all over the world, their hats look like Chefs hats here, but they're Soviet doctor caps
Shriners is an amazing organization. They just started visits to Alaska this year so we don't have to fly to Spokane Washington.
They helped many children in the Soviet Union, they helped those impacted by the earthquake in Armenia in 1988 and the Ufa Train Disaster in 1989 free of charge
Maxime and Anton are soo cute! But never pay with fire!
Amazing story
This story should be made into a movie
You’re right, definitely would be a great movie with the right directior.
Provided that it’s shown on theatre screens instead of tv.
Coppola is definitely the filmmaker for the job, and above all else, the doctor leading the American surgical team should be portrayed by C. Thomas Howell or Matt Dillon? Possibly Rob Lowe, or Tom Cruise, not to mention Ralph Macchio, or Emilio Estevez? Maybe even Glenn Withrow?
For the Soviet surgeon, either George Hamilton or Richard Chamberlain?
Gorbachev was still in power at the time. At 13:41 Shatner mentions that they were able to grant the United States and Soviet governments to grant full permission for the flight. This was back shortly before the cold war ended, in fact the Berlin wall fell not even a year before this. There was a relationship between U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Thank god for that, I was about 33 years old when this happened,the Berlin wall finally came down when I was about 9 years old.
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. It fell on November 9,1989.
The Soviets weren't out of power in Russia until 1992, I believe.
And Putin’s doing his best to return them to power.
Always watch your kids and never let them play with fire which can cost 'em their lives
So happy for Anton
So lucky we are here in USA/canada
canada maybe but USA is not exactly luck or something good, at least as a whole... but hope your life is nice and safe
Thank All of You People also both Countries for being able to come together and saving the Young Man. ❤
A while back on another posting of this segment, someone commented that Anton went on to become a US citizen and is now a doctor in Texas. Can anyone verify that? If that is indeed the case, it’s beyond awesome!
No, he lives in Russia and he is not a doctor, he is a musician. This is his friend Maxim is the one who has Canadian citizenship.
@@АлексейНечаев-у6ь did he stay in his home town?
@@generichuman2044 No, he lives in Moscow now.
@@АлексейНечаев-у6ь Sources?
@@lackedpuppet9022 Social networks, of course.
man after seeing a U.S. hospital for the first time. i can only imagine how hard it must have been to go back to ones in siberia
I hope you’re doing well young man
When unintentional trajedy occurs n children must become adults, we might'nt want but tis harsh reality!! 7brainoperations&2time cancer survivor, when I was 10 I encountered truth.
This is why flammable and combustible liquid such as gasoline should be locked up in containers and in a locked shed where kids cant access it.
Yes the paper did start the fire but if he wasn't playing with the fuel and soaked his clothes in the fuel which the burring paper caught his fuel soaked pants on fire it wouldn't have been as bad yeah playing with a fire not good even if kids are told no matches doesn't mean if they find the matches in the kitchen or moms purse they are going to think about mom and dad you saying no playing with matches or lighters for me only they seen you light the kitchen stove or the birthday cake candles tor even the BBQ and not get hurt they will think nothing is going to happen to me and will likely try to play with them or go and do something dangerous not knowing what might happen make sure they cant find the matches or lighters in the fist place put them far up where they cant get to them theses kids hid them from his mom so she had no idea they had them there is a TH-cam video of a preschool that did fire safety talked about matches and lighters how they are dangerous and for grown ups only they removed the fuel and match heads and hid them threw out the classroom in toy bins on bookshelves and many other places only a few took the lesson seriously the other kids wanted to start a campfire in the room so keep them out of reach then you removed the fire danger same as gasoline keep it looked up gasoline doesn't need a match or lighter to catch fire kids have dumped gasoline down a slide the static electricity caused the gas to ignite true story so keep those fuels looked up and away just like matches and lighters.
Poor Dr Waymack they interviewed him after he was up late with an emergency and a full days work. All he wanted to do was go home and sleep. He didn’t want to play himself but got roped into it. It took so long and he told them he had to leave to see his actual patients. They grabbed a male nurse that was 6” shorter to replace him.
Anton now lives in Moscow I heard he’s not close to his mom following the accident
That's sad if that is true.
Man, I feel bad for the mom too...she must feel guilt for not taking action earlier to prevent damage. She truly does love her son, as shown here.
I'm guessing that he's somewhere between the ages of 22 and, 32 . years old by know am I right? Does anybody happen to know what he's up to these days?
How could they take action in a remote village? The Dad went to the airport as he saw a way out, but it's not like they had money so they could just fly out to Galveston. Anton, if this is true, should realize his mom was there the whole time. He was a very fortunate little boy. Hope he got some pizza and Texas BBQ before he went home. Pizza is the universal language for kids!!!! Mom always said that protein heals.
@@marycanary Anton is 40 years old now
Our leaders today need to watch this.
The Russian language makes the kids look and sound cute I say.
@Tanya Poort I was literally about to say to myself I bet someone will comment that haha
@Tanya Poort why not? there's no reason to hate a language, regardless of what some people in power who speak it do...
@@pearlkelly6337 well it's stupid and basically xenophobic...
and I'm sorry about your name...
it's still a nice language and nice people generally speaking (:
That’s the saddest 😢 thing to watch
Must roll on the floor in case your cloths are on fire.
Maxim reminds me of Macaulay Culkin in My Girl
that's why he looked familiar!
Probably related biologically, but distantly.
Never play with gasoline n fire. Or any flammable liquid
I guess they don't teach "stop, drop, and roll."
I wonder how Anton is doing today
See if you have any kids that are interested in a you have home to take
Kid Logic: I’d rather set myself on fire than go home to change clothes and risk getting in shit with my mom.
Russians...
Why would a kid even be allowed to play with matches?! That's very unwise and very unsafe! That woman should've stopped them.
They hid the matches in a hole from his mom how whould she knowen that they had the matches and dont blame the lady walking by she how would have knowen if they had there parents permision or not its not her fault at all its the fault of the kids and their poor actions.
They weren't allowed to. The kids had a box of matches hidden under the floor boards. They even said that they had them hidden. Kids do stuff they're not allowed to do all the time and kids in Siberia are no different. She DID tell them to stop and then got distracted chasing her son. I'm sure she wishes she had physically taken the boys away from the fire and back to their homes but hindsight is 20/20. And she didn't know that Anton was soaked in oil from the waist down so probably didn't see it as a life or death situation at the moment.
Is he still in contact with his parents? I read somewhere that he isn’t
Be it stars and stripes or hammer and sickle or crescent moon or star we are all one we are all loved we are all cared for and we are one
Anton is thankful that he recovered in the Shriners Hospital for children in Houston, Texas.
Ok, it was Galveston afterall. I now stand corrected.
The boy should have used the stop, drop, and roll method to put the flames out. I agree with the other people that the boys should not have been playing with matches and flammable liquids
Only reason im watching this is the doctor, paul waymack, wrote a book which im reading
Same here! Great book!
Me too!
Is the book about this incident or something else? What is it called?
Those Russian doctors look like they're wearing a chef's hat. Gotta love that Eastern European Communist block.
Such wardrobe is most interesting.
It was filmed in the US.
and be told not to play with matches.
it was the 80s, and a small town...
It's been 28 years since this happened so Anton is 36 now. He is now married with a child.
No, he doesn't live in the US, you have the wrong data. Anton lives in Moscow and he has only one child.
@@АлексейНечаев-у6ь correct. I found him on facebook. He's in a rock band now and plays guitar
Алексей Нечаев Sorry about that.
tedmerr That’s wonderful.
I hope he's doing alright during this mess.
Shouldn’t have been playing with fire in the first place but one of the other boys should have lit the fire at least
She said she went into shock seeing someone go up in flames running around screaming in pain like that is a very shocking thing to see when your in shock you just you lose all control of your actions i know what to do if someone catches on fire to cover them with a jacket , roll then on the ground or use a garden hose or fire extinguisher to put the out but not everyone is ready to see something like that its no her fault its the kids for playing with the fire or the fuel which soaked his cloths that's how he caught fire the burring paper set his fuel soaked pants on fire don't play fire or fuels don't get burned and live its plain and simple.
I hope they gave him a fat steak dinner while he was in Texas. Kid deserved a lot better than hospital food.
Ask the chefs, if any of them are still on staff today?
12:37 guess whose photo is on the wall 🤣
Good grief. Was he soaked in gasoline???
It was some kind of flammable liquid
Stop drop roll
This little Russian boy learned the hard way learn not to burn!!!
or learn how to do it properly and stay safe first!
The Soviet Union is no more
Until Putin says otherwise?!
How scary the Soviets look like cooks and butchers
Really dinner in Italy i had dinner at mind night.
Why do the Russian nurses look like chefs?
I thinknk it was the uniform of the Soviet Healthcare system.
Above is true. Not only doctors weared the same, but also shop assistants for example.
Would give anything to see the drawings of the original designer.
C in times of a child being hurt and facing death politics and borders don't overcome the love of a child
👋😎👍
Alaska used to be a part of Russia
Until my ex-husband’s ancestor, Tsar Alexander II., sold it to Abe Lincoln.
@@LindaCooper-i3fI thought it was Andrew Johnson who the Tsar sold Alaska too. Last time I checked Abe Lincoln had already been killed by the time Alaska was purchased by the United States.
why couldnt vladmir go with them to alaska
They couldn’t get the additional visa needed for him.
He and Anna had another son at home
should be watching the kids.
Isn't Communism great?!
if I could redefine it, that'd be the real meaning of communism to me, about people being a community, including whether they are or not...
@@Cassxowary But that isn't the real meaning of communism.
It is about being 100% controlled by a malicious gov't who kills you if you do not comply and makes you live in poverty, eating dirt while they eat steak. That's communism.
America will be there soon enough.
Tell it to my ex-husband’s ancestor Tsar Nicholas, II., and shout it loud because he never had a proper education that would have made him less of an autocrat.
Goodnight nurse!
Potato and bread more like carb and carb were are the vegetables carrots and beans and or even tomato salad this is a menu for a typical Italian meal
Fried chicken
Mashed potatoes
Tomes salad
Beens
We grow everything from tomatoes to beans and parsley and zucchini
We buy the potatoes next year were going to try to grow potatoes in my vegetable garden.
brun
5:46 Why does he have a beard like Drake....?
it's burnt skin, ashes...
@@Cassxowary right but that's just a reenactment (fortunately) -- I just thought the makeup was funny
nerf miner
Amazing story